continued mactex support issues ... (dependencies)

Dan Ports dports at macports.org
Sat Oct 26 02:36:36 PDT 2013


On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:08:54AM -0700, Dan Ports wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:23:02PM +0000, John Owens wrote:
> > LaTeXiT has a nice "mactex" variant:
> > 
> > variant mactex description "Use MacTeX instead of TeX Live" {
> >     depends_run-delete    bin:pdftex:texlive-basic
> > }
> 
> There are a bunch of things wrong here...

And I forgot to mention the one I'm most confused by, namely that the
variant seems to be useless: the point of writing the depspecs as bin:
dependencies is to allow MacTeX to satisfy them without needing a
variant...

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Dan R. K. Ports                UW CSE                http://drkp.net/


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