On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Faisal Moledina <[email protected]> wrote: > I > decided to help update the postflight script to link to MacPorts > TeXLive ports, called MacPorts-TeXLive. I've pasted the relevant > portion of the postflight script at http://pastie.org/1208204 and I > was wondering if other MacTeX users or anyone in general can check to > make sure that I haven't missed anything.
That sounds great, thanks. >The main > disadvantage that I see is that because MacPorts installs TeXLive > binaries in /opt/local/bin, when this TeX distribution is selected, > /usr/texbin would link to /opt/local/bin. Since /usr/texbin is > typically recommended to be prepended to $PATH, this would cause > issues for people who do not want MacPorts binaries to take precedence > over system ones (i.e. Perl). Check latest "messed up perl" discussion. > I'm not sure how to deal with that apart > from making a texlive-bin somewhere in /opt/local > (opt/local/bin/texlive ?) I'd not deal with it at all as it's not an issue, I guess most of macports users have $prefix on head of PATH anyway. -- Andrea _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
