On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:39:58AM +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > 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
Although it is possible to have two different versions of TeX Live installed, it would require some work to keep them separate, and we haven't done that with the texlive ports. It would also require us to have (and maintain!) two separate versions of each of the texlive ports, e.g. texlive-latex-2009 and texlive-latex-2010 -- bearing in mind that there are close to 90 separate texlive ports already. This, I think, would cause a lot of confusion for texlive users and maintainers of ports that depend on texlive components. Generally speaking, MacPorts tries to avoid having multiple versions of ports unless there's a really compelling reason to have more than one. I think in general texlive users do just want to have the latest stable version installed, and automatically upgrade when a new one is available. I wasn't aware of anyone wanting to keep old versions of texlive insatlled -- if you do, I'd be interested to know why. > 2) Updating of the Tex-Live distribution is done via tlmgr > (TexLive manager) > Is it supported or will it work with the MacPorts > version? No -- if texlive is installed through MacPorts, it needs to be updated via MacPorts. We don't support (and don't install) tlmgr because having another package manager in use can cause problems as they will interfere with each other. > 3) Is the Tex Distribution Preference Pane supported? > a) refers partly to 1b Not yet, but thanks to Faisal Moledina's work it should soon be possible to select MacPorts TeXLive from the MacTeX TeX Distribution prefpane. See http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26784 > 4) Where do the MacTextras go? Into the MacPorts > Directory(Folder) in Applications? They aren't included in the texlive ports because they're not actually parts of texlive (hence the "extras" name), and we don't have a specific port for them, but I think we do have ports for most of the software included in there. > 5) There is the BasicTex distribution for TeXLive. Maybe that > is what you are looking for > to divide TeX up. Not really -- we already have most of texlive divided into separate ports such that you can install whatever combination of collections you want. It looks like BasicTeX would be the combination of texlive-{basic,latex,latex-recommended,context,metapost,pstricks,xetex} which is actually not that far off from our default texlive installation (texlive +medium). The only problem we have is that we have to build all the binaries at once in texlive-bin, whether they're used or not. That's because of how the source is distributed and built. BasicTeX is a binary distribution so it doesn't look like it would be much help. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
