I don't question the need to use IPS to deliver binaries;
install-tl and TLMGR although they are in some sense a competing package manager, they are not necessarily a bad thing and 'competitor' to IPS. The reason why I packaged install-tl is to produce a LaTeX IPS package. So that I can do a simple : pkg install latex to get the basic binaries that are needed. The choices that install-tl offers are: a [ ] full scheme (everything) b [ ] medium scheme (small + more packages and languages) c [ ] small scheme (basic + xetex, metapost, a few languages) d [ ] basic scheme (plain and latex) e [X] minimal scheme (plain only) f [ ] ConTeXt scheme g [ ] GUST TeX Live scheme h [ ] infrastructure-only scheme (no TeX at all) i [ ] teTeX scheme (more than medium, but nowhere near full) j [ ] custom selection of collections install-tl could be used to fetch the sources. Instead of building from a downloaded tarball, install-tl can use as input a install-tl profile file (for a given choice). Based on the minimal scheme, a package "tex" can be created. Based on a basic profile, a package "latex" can be created. Then for other historical distributions such as "tetex" the same thing. David Stes _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev