> On 30 Jun 2019, at 3:11 pm, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have the complete MacTeX 2019 installed, which includes TeXLive 2019, and > its tex-related binaries are first on my PATH. > > Some MacPorts ports use various tex binaries and libraries, wither during > build or runtime. So when I installed those, automatically the requisite > MacPorts tex-related ports were installed, too. This is the case, for > example, with octave (uses texinfo, texlive-basic, texlive-latex, > texlive-fonts-recommended > > Hence I now have two separate TeX distributions installed, which seems > utterly wasteful. The one I want to keep is MacTeX/TeXLive. > > Can the various Macports tex ports be uninstalled without breaking other, > currently installed ports using them? And without intefering with rebuilding > those tex-using MacPorts
In general, no, you cannot do this. Macports generally always prefers to install and use its own dependencies, for the reasons outlined in https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs If you try and uninstall the dependencies required by, for instance, octave, you will break things. Chris > > —- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240 > Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 > >
