Re: Fink-users Digest, Vol 180, Issue 27
"Lucier, Bradley J" <[email protected]>
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 13:20:35 +0200 From: Uwe Brauer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Fink-users] evince without texlive Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Content-Type: text/plain Hi I'd like to use use evince instead of xpdf, but when I try to install it, fink wants to install the whole texlive pkg, but I already installed texlive 2020 from CTAN. Any idea how to proceed? Regards Uwe Brauer Alexander Hansen just responded to one of my messages: We used to do a virtual package for TeTeX a long time ago, but we stopped because the lead developer disliked Fink, and also liked to move the files that we used as indicators that the package was installed—possibly deliberately. It got to be a hassle for the maintainer, so he dropped that. We gradually dropped allowing for externally-installed versions of other packages for the same reason — an upstream developer would move something, and Fink would think that the package wasn’t installed when it actually was. The placeholder package isn’t hard in and of itself—it might just be a bunch of symbolic links from the Fink tree to the actual TeXlive binaries. What is hard is making sure that our other packages can swap between the two options. —akh So I’d just install Fink texlive package in parallel with your more recent texlive package. At least, that’s what I did for my purposes. Brad _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users