#25203: should have a tex metaport ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: dports@… | Owner: dports@… Type: request | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.9.0 Keywords: | Port: tex ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by dports@…): I'm no longer particularly enthused about this idea. Part of the problem with supporting multiple tex distributions is that they're organized differently. MacTeX is divided into thousands of packages but installs them all by default. The texlive ports are divided into ~80 packages, with only the most common ones installed by default. pTeX is a single monolithic distribution, as was teTeX. I'm trying to get ports that need specific tex functionality to depend on the minimal package that fits that need. Some need only texlive-basic, others need texlive-latex, others need texlive-latex-recommended or texlive-pictures or texlive-htmlxml, etc. Depending on a port:tex would make this impossible. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/25203#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS