ports/89441: TeX support in FreeBSD is problematic.

[Joel Mayes]

>Number:         89441
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       TeX support in FreeBSD is problematic.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 23 00:40:27 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joel Mayes
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD bluebird.zenith 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


>Description:
A the depencies of TeX/LaTeX based ports are a bit odd, for example
print/musixtex depends on the print/tex port but will also work correctly 
with the print/teTeX port which conflicts with the print/tex and the 
print/latex port, 

This makes makes writing ports of Tex/LaTeX based software is problematic, 
for example a piece of software which depends on print/musixtex which currently
on print/tex, but also depends on some of the LaTeX extensions bundled with 
teTeX, but not included in the seperate print/latex port would is not portable.


>How-To-Repeat:


>Fix:

Does the port system do multiple depends i.e. a program can depends on
print/tex OR print/teTeX?

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