#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 adfernandes@…): I have a suggestion: there appear to be a couple of big packages (TeX is one, perhaps Qt4 is another) that users may want on their systems to be decoupled from MacPorts. Can there be a ''small'' list of "big apps" that MacPorts just knows about? For TeX specifically, MacTeX and TeXLive both install into `/usr/texbin`, and use symlinks to point that to whatever dir the actual install is in. So could MacPorts just check to see if `/usr/texbin` is present for TeX related ports? Kind-of hack-ish, yes... but the only alternatives that I see are either this or getting users to edit their `macports.conf` to uncomment the `PATH` variable and add `/usr/texbin`... or mistakenly have two copies of TeXLive. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25203#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS