#12913: tetex is dead -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: zach@tu-clausthal.de | Owner: gwright@macports.org Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Enhancements Component: ports | Version: 1.5.0 Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Comment (by josh+macports@root.id.au): Replying to [comment:4 Damien.Pollet@gmail.com]:
This package itself would be empty but it would ensure that there is either tetex or texlive or any other TeX port installed.
This is almost what a dependency like path:${prefix}/bin/tex:texlive does. It will be fulfilled by any TeX distribution installed through MacPorts, and if none is installed, it will be fulfilled by installing texlive.
One of those ports could also be a placeholder for an external TeX distro and warn that you should know what you are doing if you install it.
Such a port won't be accepted into the standard MacPorts distribution. Ports aren't meant to make use of the software that comes with OS X (with a very few exceptions like X11 and gcc), let alone user-installed packages. But, there's nothing stopping anyone from making themselves a local port that just places some symlinks under ${prefix} that point to an external TeX installation, if they really want to. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12913#comment:5> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS