My computer for daily use is an openSuSE GNU/Linux box; for TeX processing, however, I'm directly using tlmgr.[*] Regardless of this I don't have any dependency issues with `zypper', openSuSE's package manager, since I'm using the nifty `texlive-dummy-opensuse' package,
https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse.git . This package tells zypper that all TeXLive packages provided by openSuSE are installed, without installing them actually. I would like to have something similar for MacPorts. My questions: * Has anyone already written such a dummy package? * If not, how can I construct `empty packages' that only exist to fulfill package dependencies? Werner [*] To be more precise, I don't use tlmgr at all but directly TeXLive's SVN repository. However, this distinction doesn't matter here.
