Re: Default `convert` command - MacPorts ImageMagick vs. existing installation

2011-09-30 Thread Sam Kuper
From: Mr. Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com Date: 29 September 2011 14:27 I don't think your assumption is correct. As far as I know, Apple will never install anything in `/usr/local/` and definitely not so on a machine fresh from the factory. By convention, `/usr/local/` is for the stuff

MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, This thread was prompted by another thread I started recently, which has since been resolved: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2011-September/025653.html I installed MacTex a couple of years ago, and although I'm not currently using LaTeX for anything, I may want or

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Webster
I don't claim to have all the answers, but recently when I had to compile a new latex document I got from a colleague I found that it was not compatible with the macports versions. So I installed MacTex2011. It has a great prefpane to let you switch which tex distribution you want to have active

autoexpect : can't find package Expect

2011-09-30 Thread Yvon Thoraval
Hey all, i wanted to run autoexpect and got the folowing : imyt% autoexpect can't find package Expect while executing package require Expect (file /opt/local/bin/autoexpect line 6) imyt% This is strange because everything like that has been installed by MacPorts : $ which expect

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Unless disk space is tight, or theres the potential for path confusion that couldnt be trivially avoided if one had both, I'd ask which had the best record of staying reliable and up-to-date. And not everyone wants to wait however long it takes for all the TeX stuff and its dependencies to

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Webster
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: I imagine that if all the components were in MacPorts, it would be easy enough to have a meta-port that just existed to give single name to cause all the rest to be installed. Probably if you install texlive+full

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Anderson
I've been meaning to make a BibDesk port for a while now. I don't recognize the others. Otherwise, MacPorts is pretty up to date. Especially if you install texlive+full Mark On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Scott Webster sewebs...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Richard L.

Re: autoexpect : can't find package Expect

2011-09-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 30, 2011, at 23:16, Yvon Thoraval wrote: i wanted to run autoexpect and got the folowing : imyt% autoexpect can't find package Expect while executing package require Expect (file /opt/local/bin/autoexpect line 6) imyt% This is strange because everything like that has

Re: autoexpect : can't find package Expect

2011-09-30 Thread Yvon Thoraval
I do have the MacPorts one : imyt% which tclsh /opt/local/bin/tclsh imyt% then, as far as i understand, i do have to clean expect first and then reinstall it ? i think after a port selfupdate ? best, Yvon 2011/10/1 Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org On Sep 30, 2011, at 23:16, Yvon

Re: autoexpect : can't find package Expect

2011-09-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 1, 2011, at 00:48, Yvon Thoraval wrote: I do have the MacPorts one : imyt% which tclsh /opt/local/bin/tclsh imyt% then, as far as i understand, i do have to clean expect first and then reinstall it ? i think after a port selfupdate ? Oh. If you already have