teTeX and TeXLive

[A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven]

Chris Rees wrote:

> Thanks for your message.... But :)
 
Hey, I'm just the messenger ;-)

>> * print/latex-cjk has option DVIPDFMX hardcoded to teTeX stuff.
> 
> That is a problem for the latex-cjk port maintainer.
> 
>> * print/freetype-tools's RUNDEPEND=t1asm is hard coded to teTeX and
>>   conflicted with bulk print/texlive-base's pkg-plist.
> 
> That is a problem for the freetype maintainers.

Fair enough. I'll pass it back to the Forums and notifty the maintainers
in question.
 
>> * print/texlive-base needs to be more modularized to achieve drop-in
>>   replacement with teTeX for downstream ports.
> 
> This in particular is a long term goal, however I and many othersi
> greatly appreciate Hiroki-san's efforts to bring TeX Live to FreeBSD
> ports.  It may come later.

I quite agree. It's great to finally have TeXLive on FreeBSD and Hiroki's
efforts are very much appreciated.

AvW

-- 
I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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