Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#12913 closed enhancement
tetex is dead — at Initial Version
Reported by: | zach@… | Owned by: | macports-dev@… |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 1.5.0 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
The tetex port should be replaced somehow. The tetex distribution is dead, i.e., it's former maintainer has stopped maintaining it.
There are 2 issues:
- Many people on the mac install some other TeX distribution. For instance I have chosen TeXLive, which is sort of an "official" distro. It works well.
- Since most non-macports tex distibutions bring their "own" directory hierarchy, and since a tex distro takes almost 1 GB of disk space, I think it is really too much of a waste of space to have a second, "parallel" tex installation by macports.
So macports really should detect whether or not there is already a tex installation (at least one of the usual "suspects"); and only if there is none, then it should install it's own.
Best regards, Gabriel.
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