tetex is dead

[zach@…]

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:

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.
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.

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.