> On Sep 23, 2023, at 12:29 PM, Gerard E. Seibert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I currently use MiKTeX with Texstudio on my Windows machine. I would
> also like to use it on my FreeBSD 13.2 machine. Unfortunately, that is
> not happening.
> 
> I reported the problems to the MiKTeX developer, who informed me
> that MiKTeX is not supported on FreeBSD and refused to help me. So, why
> is MiKTeX being released in the ports system if it doesn't work? I
> could file a bug report, but since MiKTeX doesn't have a maintainer, it
> seems rather pointless.
> 
> --
> Gerard
> 

Unless you submit a bug report it's impossible to debug as different people use 
different tools.

Add tex@ to the bug although I am not sure whether if I can be of any help as I 
do not use it.

And about why it is in the tree is a different question. People take over 
maintainership and then also release their maintainership when that tool is no 
longer of their interest. When a port goes back to the pool it's sometimes 
unmaintained and over the time it's dependencies changes which require more 
recent versions of that. So in short we cannot blame anyone for why it is in 
the tree.

Kind regards,
Moin

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