CFT: texlive ports

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 04/29/13 06:56, David Demelier wrote:
> 2013/4/17 David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com>:
>> 2013/2/26 Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>  Ports to replace print/*teTeX* with TeX Live 2012 are ready for
>>>  testing.  Please note that this is not the final version and
>>>  committing the new ones into the ports tree will go in the following
>>>  phases:
>>>
>>>   1. Commit print/texlive-full for full version of TeX Live.
>>>
>>>   2. Update ports which depend on teTeX to make them possible to
>>>      select teTeX or TeX Live.  teTeX by default at this phase.  Split
>>>      TeX Live ports into smaller ones as necessary in parallel.
>>>
>>>   3. Switch the default to TeX Live.
>>>
>>>   4. Remove print/*teTeX*.
>>>
>>>  The patch for phase 1 can be found at the following URL:
>>>
>>>   http://people.allbsd.org/~hrs/FreeBSD/texlive-20130227-1.tar.gz
>>>
>>>  This consists of the following ports:
>>>
>>>   print/texlive-full
>>>   print/texlive-base
>>>   print/texlive-texmf
>>>   print/tex-ptexenc
>>>   print/xetex
>>>   print/luatex
>>>   devel/kpathsea
>>>   devel/web2c
>>>
>>>  Please try to install print/texlive-full.  The total size of the
>>>  installed files will be ~3GB, so be careful of free space on your
>>>  disk.  While these ports still include some rough edges, all bits of
>>>  the TeX Live 2012 should be installed.  Note that they cannot coexist
>>>  with the other TeX-related ports based on teTeX---this means you need
>>>  to remove all of TeX-related ports first.  If you want a stable
>>>  version, please wait for migration procedure which will be submitted
>>>  in the end of phase 2.
>>>
>>>  Non-English engines like pTeX also work but dviware (xdvi, dvips,
>>>  dvipdfmx, ...) for them and non-standard font maps are not included
>>>  (or activated) yet.  They will be added when updating the existing
>>>  ports for the engine-specific versions of dviware.
>>>
>>>  Some combinations of the ports on which TeX Live depends may lead to
>>>  a build problem due to version mismatch.  If you notice build failure
>>>  or something wrong with the behavior, please send a report to me
>>>  directly via email.  Thank you.
>>>
>> Thanks for your work! I've never touched LaTeX in my life and wanted
>> texlive to be in ports before starting learning it. However I can't
>> believe it takes 3Go of disk space. Why is this so big?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Demelier David
> Hello there,
>
> Can you fix the dependency issue? The port print/texlive-base requires
> print/psutils-a4 but it has moved to print/psutils, so I just edited
> the makefile and built it.
>
> And again, thank for you work :) Hope the port will be added soon.

Any news on this being committed? It has been over two months now and
seems to be working beautifully for everyone...
-Nathan