Changes between Initial Version and Version 22 of Ticket #12913


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Jun 4, 2010, 7:42:58 PM (14 years ago)
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ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
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  • Ticket #12913 – Description

    initial v22  
    1 The tetex port should be replaced somehow.
     1The tetex port should be replaced somehow. [[br]]
    22The tetex distribution is dead, i.e., it's former maintainer has stopped maintaining it.
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    44There are 2 issues:
    5 1. 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.
    6 2. 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.
     5 1. 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.
     6 2. 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.
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    88So 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.
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    10 Best regards,
     10Best regards, [[br]]
    1111Gabriel.