TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - is this going to happen or not?

[Nikola Lečić]

On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:01:37 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2012 22:42:50 +1200
> Sam Lin articulated:
> 
> The real irony here is that I have been playing around with "TeX Live"
> on Windows for several years. I have serious doubts as to whether it
> can ever be made to run as easily and be updated as effortlessly on
> FreeBSD as it is on a Windows system. Considering how the ports system
> works, I find it rather had to imagine that it would. I can compare
> porting "TeX Live" to FreeBSD and hoping to make it work effortlessly
> to attempting to write all major applications in pure assembly
> language. I suppose with enough man hours invested it might be
> possible, but why bother. I would seriously question the actual number
> of users who both need "TeX Live" and are not able to use it on another
> environment. There are so many other projects that FreeBSD could be
> reasonably concentrating on that I find this one to be a priority at
> best.

This was already repeated many times on this mailing list, but I guess
it won't hurt to remind that vanilla TeX Live works on FreeBSD (from 7.0
to 10-CURRENT) out of the box. It lives in /usr/local/texlive/, has its
own nice text and gui package manager and doesn't mess with the rest of
your system. Just download ISO and install it.

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