On 2009/10/29 02:16, frantisek holop wrote: > i am trying to put together a context minimals port, > which is basically a minimal tex distribution. it needs > pdftex, luatex, xetex, and other programs that do not > have standalone openbsd ports as i write this. they exist > in texlive but having texlive as a dependecny would just > make this port useless. actually, texlive would be > a conflicting package (nothing personal Edd :-)
perhaps those parts of texlive could be subpackaged or split off... it's good to try and find ways around conflicts, if anything else starts to depend on them, they make things difficult for people using the system, and also for bulk builds. > so in this case, the port Makefile would really be nothing > else but a recipe how to download, compile and install all > these programs and files. is there an example for this > in the ports tree i could study? > > for example it is not clear to me, what DISTNAME should > be in a case like this, because there is no DISTNAME file > to download in the first place. you can set DISTFILES. grepping over the tree should find you a couple, it's not used very widely though.
