Hi Ryan,
The problem is that the Tex-Live is a static system as such. The
binaries do seem to change for
year to year. At least as far as I have noticed.
But, many of the Tex…-packages are updated regulary. Such as
polyglossia for example.
There are no ports for the TeX-packages in Macports nor would it be
feasable.
Yet, these are working parts of the texlive-distribution. tlmgr is
there to kept the texlive
distribution up to date.
Software in form of binaries do not seem to be installed. But, want is
installed are support files
and scripts.
I way I understand the way ports recognizes the a port has to be
updated is via the portfile. I believe
that it is up to the maintainer to identify upstream changes and
change the portfile.
With texlive the support files change practically daily no maintainer
can kept up with this.
I, also, believe it would not be feasible for MacPort to add tlmgr
features to the ports commands.
When one installs MacTeX one gets an "outdated" version. Then one fires
up tlmgr(or its GUI) to get the
latest support files if one wants.
That is why I suggest support for tlmgr. Of course if MacPorts checks
if the tarballs have changed and says that
texlive is outdated and needs to be upgraded then I stand corrected.
but then MacPorts rebuild the entire texlive
binaries which actually do not be to be rebuild just there support
files
Maybe, some users of the Macports port of texlive can chime in and
express their usage and if they have a need to
kept very uptodate.
regards
Keith.
Am 05.11.2010 um 08:44 schrieb Ryan Schmidt:
>
> There cannot be support in MacPorts for tlmgr if the purpose of tlmgr is to
> update software that was installed by MacPorts. MacPorts must remain the only
> mechanism by which software installed with MacPorts is updated, otherwise
> MacPorts cannot fulfill its primary functions of being able to reliably
> install, upgrade and uninstall software for you.
>
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