[MacPorts] #12913: tetex is dead

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#12913: tetex is dead
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  Reporter:  zach at tu-clausthal.de  |       Owner:  gwright at macports.org
      Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new                 
  Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements   
 Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.5.0               
Resolution:                        |    Keywords:                      
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Comment (by milosh at macports.org):

 Replying to [comment:7 shreevatsa.public at gmail.com]:
 > I'm interested in getting ports working with an externally installed
 MacTeX.

 It would be possible provided you have the right links in ${prefix}/bin
 (bibtex, latex and maybe a few other). In fact, macports dependency engine
 allows for depending on a file being present instead of a full port, and
 it was agreed that ports depending on tex should use that dependency
 scheme.

 You could try a 'ln -s mactex/s/location/latex /opt/local/bin/latex' and
 'ln -s mactex/s/location/bibtex /opt/local/bin/bibtex' and see if things
 depending on tex install well. Then you could contribute a port that just
 puts the good links in /opt/local/bin (a little like what the 'texlive'
 port does)...

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12913#comment:9>
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