Re: Using pre-installed TexLive to satisfie fink dependency

Hello Hanspeter,

Thank you for the explanation. It explains the reference to virtual 
package that pops up to make a choice for tex  with or without X11.

Tho answer your question. No, I don't know of any special feature in my 
current TexLive install that I presem would not also be in the Fink 
version. I do weekly run of tlmgr to keep it up to date. That works fine 
for me.

On a recent attempt to install svn I got rather annoyed that it required 
to install Tex, which happened through dependencies on two rather basic 
libraries. libserf1 and libaprutil. The tex install needs over 25 
packages.  That install fails on the build libharfbuzz0 which I reported 
earlier.

I'll heed your advice and move to the fink install, expecting it to 
support my use of tlmgr.

Finally,  I thank you for all the work on Fink over these many, many years
Cheers
Eduard

Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote on 07/10/2024 01:30:
> On 10/6/24 1:12 PM, Eduard Karel de Jong wrote:
>> Hello Tomoaki,
>>
>> Maybe you know I can I convince fink to use my already installed 
>> TexLive?
>>
>> It is in /Library/TeX/texbin/
>
> Fink used to have a system-texlive package long ago to work when the 
> user had an external install of texlive. However, upstream quickly 
> became a moving target and it was impossible to keep up with them, so 
> it was decided to discontinue it and only use our own install. Our 
> current texlive is the latest at v20240312. Is there something special 
> in your texlive that's not provided by the Fink version?
>
> Hanspeter
>
>



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