On 2012-04-18, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's the simplest way to get rid of the macports files from texlive > and aysmpotote _WITHOUT_ disturbing the original files from the direct > TeXLive 2011 installation?
First off, have you experienced any problems with this setup? Now, you probably don't need to remove anything. Aside from the space on disk, the two prefixes _should_ ignore each other. /usr/local can be a headache if other software tries to link to it instead of the MacPorts provided items, but I think you should be safe with the /usr/local/texlive prefix. If you want to keep asymptote, you'll need to keep the MacPorts provided texlive installation as well. You could probably hack around this by editing the asymptote Portfile so that it does not depend on texlive, but then you may also need to (re?)patch asymptote so that it links to /usr/local/texlive instead of /opt/local. This may be as simple as editing or adding a source path so asymptote knows where to look. In either case, this type of usage isn't exactly supported by MacPorts. You may find others who have performed similar hacks and some help there; I know requests often come up for help in using the system or 3rd party version of some library instead of the MacPorts version. These are usually met with varying degrees of success. With the current MacPorts design, you'd be best off uninstalling TexLive 2011 and using the MacPorts version. This is just for space savings though. Overall, I don't think there should be any compatibility issues in having both on your system. I think MacTex even includes an application for switching which texlive installation to use, and this includes support for selecting the MacPorts version. -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
