Re: meta-packages questions

2009-11-01 Thread Edd Barrett
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:30:39PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: anyway, i am fine with a monolithic texlive package, i am sure it was difficult to put it together as it is (good job Edd). I have to admit first

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com: 2. Are you sure that you have to install TeXLive to begin with? I have heard that lots of people who use ConTeXt have alternative method of installing ConTeXt to Unix. The ConTeXt minimals are self-contained and don't need TeXlive. They are

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-31 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: anyway, i am fine with a monolithic texlive package, i am sure it was difficult to put it together as it is (good job Edd). I have to admit first that due to the nature of my work I have to use LaTeX and plain TeX. I

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-30 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:28:49AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Joachim Schipper said that Did you look at texlive_base? It should be a rather solid base for your work. In fact, it might suffice to install texlive_base, untar the ConTeXt

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-30 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: anyway, i am fine with a monolithic texlive package, i am sure it was difficult to put it together as it is (good job Edd). Basically, I don't have time to split all of TL down any further than I already do. You

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
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

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-29 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:32:10AM +, Stuart Henderson said that 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,

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-29 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Joachim Schipper said that This may be a stupid question, but why? TeXLive already includes ConTeXt, and it should be possible to split ConTeXt from texlive_texmf-full into its own package (texlive_texmf-context). all the tex distributions have

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-29 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:38:36PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:32:10AM +, Stuart Henderson said that 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

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-29 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Joachim Schipper said that Did you look at texlive_base? It should be a rather solid base for your work. In fact, it might suffice to install texlive_base, untar the ConTeXt files in /usr/local/share/texmf-local, and (re-)build the ls-R files.

meta-packages questions

2009-10-28 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am working on a package that is a collection of more packages and other 3rd party files. it is analoguos to a kde or gnome metapackage that basically just installs all the application and their dependencies (libraries). i am trying to put together a context minimals port, which is

Re: meta-packages questions

2009-10-28 Thread frantisek holop
hello there, some more info.. what this metaport is trying to do is quite simple in theory: fetch a fetch b fetch c configure a build a configure b build b copy c make package a_b_c-v1.0 would it be possible to divide this port up into subdirectories, like SUBDIR += a SUBDIR