We have a number of ports that install CTAN packages for TeX, which means they're also in TeX Live and thus also available in one of the texlive-* ports. Many of these ports are marked nomaintainer, have obsolete versions, or both. Probably they date back to the teTeX era.
It's obviously confusing and undesirable to have such obsolete ports around (if they even work). Some examples that have come up recently are revtex (#27709) and tex-mh (#27795). It looks like most of the tex-* ports fall into this category too. I'm inclined to go through these and mark the abandoned ones as replaced_by the appropriate texlive port. This would ensure we'd have a reasonably up-to-date version. Are there any objections to this? We'd lose the ability to install these packages separately, or to update their versions, but if they're so outdated that doesn't matter much. We also wouldn't be able to install them with other tex distributions like teTeX or pTeX. teTeX is sufficiently obsolete itself that we probably shouldn't expend any effort worrying about it, but pTeX is still used. Not sure if this will be an issue for ptex users? (Incidentally, pTeX itself is also available in texlive, with the texlive-lang-cjk port, but I haven't tried it myself.) If anyone knows of any tex ports that I definitely should or should not remove, please let me know! Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
