Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 09/15/2013 02:00 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of
> duplication of effort). I installed TeXLive using its own installer long
> before it was present in the ports tree.  Since TeXLive is very complete and
> self-contained, I don't have other ports that depend on TeX.

+1

My TeX dependency and maintenance problems all but disappeared when I moved
to the freestanding TeXLive installation.  I run a nightly cron job to
get the latest updates via tlmgr and it works like a charm.


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