#2925 tetex-base-texlive

[John Ridgway]

This package is intended as a temporary migration assistant during a process of migrating from teTeX to TeX Live. It depends on texlive and provides tetex-base. I intend to add any additional necessary packages to its Depends list. There currently are none.

Tree: 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5
Section: text

built successfully with fink -m --build-as-nobody rebuild

$ fink -v validate main/finkinfo/text/tetex-base-texlive.info
Validating package file main/finkinfo/text/tetex-base-texlive.info...
Package looks good!
$ fink -v validate ../../debs/tetex-base-texlive_1-1_darwin-i386.deb
Validating .deb file ../../debs/tetex-base-texlive_1-1_darwin-i386.deb...
Package looks good!

[John Ridgway]

[Jean-François Mertens]

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please explain what the pkg does !
There is a serious policy here, in that fink
doesn't doesn't install binaries, but builds
them (with very few exceptions, where it
is obviously impossible to get a hand on
any form of source ..).

I have additional motivation in this case,
that I think a build from source should
anyway precede this, if ever this had to come
about... _ and am ready to help with a build
from source.

PS: the "source" directory in texlive is, in .7z form,
< 20M.
And it seems available as a separate download at
several different sites..

[Jean-François Mertens]

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forgot to add that I'm sure the
tetex maintainer would also be
willing to give a helping hand
in case of a crunch ; the 2 srcs
are extremely similar !

So much that this pkg, as src,
should probably just be
viewed as an update on tetex.

JFM

[Jean-François Mertens]

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Sorry _ looking at the info file, the pkg doesn't do at all what I thought..
(thought it would be installing the binaries from some tex-live distribution..)

It is a genuine "system-" pkg
But then the pkg has to test whether all the functionality provided
by tetex-base is still there !
And it doesn't test anything _ anybody can install it, with no tex-installation
whatsoever, and cheat fink completely !

JF

[John Ridgway]

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Not so. This package requires that texlive be provided, which is currently only done by system-texlive; and system-texlive verifies that texlive is indeed installed. A careful examination of TeX Live and teTeX verifies that TeX Live provides all of the functionality of teTeX, except for a few items which are very nicely separated out in the teTeX packages (e.g., JadeTeX). If it turns out that there are things that teTeX does provide that TeX Live does not then those things will be added to this package, and to tetex-texmf-texlive.

(system-texlive, tetex-base-texlive, and tetex-texmf-texlive should be considered together.)
Peace
- John

[Andreas Gockel]

The Fink Core Team decided to reject this item, cause we're not interested in interfacing with somebody else's packaging of it.