MacTeX and MacPorts are, for the most part, going to install the same version of the same TeX Live software, so it largely comes down to which package manager you'd like to use.
The major differences are: - MacTeX includes the entire distribution (which makes it pretty large). The texlive metaport, by default, installs the most commonly used packages. The others can be installed from separate ports, or by installing texlive +full - MacTeX includes its own package manager that can install pre-release versions. Our texlive ports install the latest release version, and mostly only get bug-fix updates between releases. - if you install via MacPorts, MacPorts can keep track of your installation. Besides meaning you can update your TeX installation the same way you update your other ports, it also means that it can be used to satisfy dependencies for other ports. It can also install additional texlive packages as needed for dependencies. In years past, our texlive ports were sometimes significantly out of date. That's not really an issue nowadays; TeX Live 2011 was available in ports a week or so after its release. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
