Postponing the switch to TeXLive

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 24 21:16:04 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:44:20PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 24 Jul 2014, at 20:38, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 02:05:35PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >> Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> writes:
> >> 
> >>> I've read in /usr/ports/UPDATING that TeXLive is now the default.
> >>> Since I've no time to test it now, I'd like to stay with TeTeX for a
> >>> further litte while.
> >>> 
> >>> So I put "TEX_DEFAULT=tetex" in /etc/make.conf; however this does not
> >>> seem to work: "portupgrade -R teTeX" tries (and obviously fail) to
> >>> convert everything to TeXLive.
> >>> 
> >>> Is it possible to avoid this for now?
> >> 
> >> Based on 20 seconds of searching /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.tex.mk, I think you
> >> just need to capitalize 'tetex'.
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> > No teTeX has been totally removed, as it it was not happily living along with
> > TeXlive (leading to too many conflicts and complexity)
> > 
> > regards,
> > Bapt
> 
> I'm using TeX quite extensively for business reasons as well as private purposes. Are there any known pitfalls when migrating from teTeX to TeXlive?

Not that I know, everything is better from my usage and knowledge ;)

regards,
Bapt
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