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> Von: "Keith J. Schultz" <[email protected]> > Datum: 4. November 2010 09:39:58 MEZ > An: Dan Ports <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive > > Hi, > > I have a few points question: > 1) The tex-live 2009 port shoud not be upgraded when installing > tex-live 2010 > a) they are so to say two different aninmals > b) Tex-live distributions 2009 and 2010 can co-exist > > 2) Updating of the Tex-Live distribution is done via tlmgr > (TexLive manager) > Is it supported or will it work with the MacPorts > version? > > 3) Is the Tex Distribution Preference Pane supported? > a) refers partly to 1b > > 4) Where do the MacTextras go? Into the MacPorts > Directory(Folder) in Applications? > > 5) There is the BasicTex distribution for TeXLive. Maybe that > is what you are looking for > to divide TeX up. > a) BasicTeX can also coexist with TeX-Live 2010 and the > others! > > I realize that the TeX-Live distribution is a very special case > for MacPorts. > > regards > Keith. > > > > Am 02.11.2010 um 06:24 schrieb Dan Ports: > >> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 03:39:30PM -0400, Faisal Moledina wrote: >>> This all sounds great to me. Let me know if there's anything I can >>> help test for this. I'm curious as to why all the binaries are >>> currently in one port? >> >> I just implemented this and checked it in on my texlive 2010 branch. >> You (and anyone else interested in TeX Live 2010) might want to follow >> ticket #26430 for more information: >> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26430 >> >> I'm not sure it's really ready for testing yet, but it should be pretty >> close -- I'm using it to edit a paper now. >> >> As for why we have only one port for binaries, it's because texlive is >> distributed as one monolithic source tarball, and its build scripts are >> designed to build it all at once. Actually, it even includes the source >> for all of the libraries it depends on, although we basically don't use >> those. In general, I think it's more geared to use in a binary >> distribution. >> >> I'd love to see texlive-bin broken up into smaller ports someday but >> that's not an easy task... >
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