Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-11 Thread Antonio Olivares
using the FreeBSD infrastructure. It happens that many people install texlive through the dvd and make several changes so that the tetex binaries do not get called on. I have the freebsd-texlive port installed and it works beautifully. I can typeset books which require it. I also use KerTeX, http

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-11 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
using the FreeBSD infrastructure. It happens that many people install texlive through the dvd and make several changes so that the tetex binaries do not get called on. I have the freebsd-texlive port installed and it works beautifully. I can typeset books which require it. I also use KerTeX

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-11 Thread Antonio Olivares
/ It works with the FreeBSD tools that you mention and it updates the packages using the FreeBSD infrastructure. It happens that many people install texlive through the dvd and make several changes so that the tetex binaries do not get called on. I have the freebsd-texlive port installed and it works

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Joseph Olatt j...@eskimo.com wrote: Hi, According to: http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive I got the impression that the texlive is now available in the ports. My understanding was that we no longer need to use portshaker(8). I've updated svn of ports

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Antonio Olivares wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 7:23:21 -0500 ] On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Joseph Olatt j...@eskimo.com wrote: Hi, According to: http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive I got the impression that the texlive is now available in the ports. My understanding was

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:01:44 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: If you prefer, you can just use the download dvd or netinstall from the texlive website. They have provided binaries for FreeBSD. I installed the full TeX distribution myself just the other week on FreeBSD 9. So no need to use the

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Polytropon wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 17:49:25 +0200 ] On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:01:44 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: If you prefer, you can just use the download dvd or netinstall from the texlive website. They have provided binaries for FreeBSD. I installed the full TeX distribution

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Joe Gain
This is not constructive criticism, but just to give voice to how great it would be if texlive could become an official port of freebsd, integrated into the ports system!!! On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: [ Polytropon wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 17:49:25

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Joe Gain wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 19:11:50 +0200 ] This is not constructive criticism, but just to give voice to how great it would be if texlive could become an official port of freebsd, integrated into the ports system!!! I imagine it would be a lot of work to integrate it into the ports

Re: freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:32:43 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I imagine it would be a lot of work to integrate it into the ports system not to mention it would take an age to compile it. There has been a lot of work done by developers to provide binaries for FreeBSD with the main texlive

freebsd-texlive port

2012-10-09 Thread Joseph Olatt
Hi, According to: http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive I got the impression that the texlive is now available in the ports. My understanding was that we no longer need to use portshaker(8). I've updated svn of ports to r305607 and I still don't see texlive* in /usr/ports/print or any