Virtual Tex package?

On my former machine I had gwTeX installed as aTex
distribution. I  
installed it again on my new iMac now using MacTeX. Is
there,  
meanwhile, any virtual package which amkes fink use this TeX
 
distribution? I don't like to install tetex.

Thanks.

hs

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Holger Schulz wrote:
> On my former machine I had gwTeX installed as aTex
distribution. I  
> installed it again on my new iMac now using MacTeX. Is
there,  
> meanwhile, any virtual package which amkes fink use
this TeX  
> distribution? I don't like to install tetex.
>
> Thanks.
>
> hs
>   
Assuming you're on 10.5, then no, there is not. 

The maintainer for our system-tetex placeholder package got
tired of the 
upstream distributions (like gwTeX) randomly moving files
around and 
therefore making the placeholder break--it's more than just
being able 
to find the "tex" executable--which caused
problems for users.   His 
decision was therefore just to have packages install a Fink
TeX 
distribution (tetex or ptex).

I'm trying to make a push to remove such a dependency from
packages 
which don't need TeX to build and can be configured use a
third-party 
TeX distribution at runtime.  It puts more responsibility on
the user, 
but since it appears that the current TeX distributions for
OS X aren't 
going to be as easy for us to package, this may be a
reasonable workaround.

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Am 2008-04-29 um 00:21 schrieb Alexander Hansen:

> Holger Schulz wrote:
>> On my former machine I had gwTeX installed as aTex
distribution. I   
>> installed it again on my new iMac now using MacTeX.
Is there,   
>> meanwhile, any virtual package which amkes fink use
this TeX   
>> distribution? I don't like to install tetex.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> hs
>>
> Assuming you're on 10.5, then no, there is not.
> The maintainer for our system-tetex placeholder package
got tired of  
> the upstream distributions (like gwTeX) randomly moving
files around  
> and therefore making the placeholder break--it's more
than just  
> being able to find the "tex"
executable--which caused problems for  
> users.   His decision was therefore just to have
packages install a  
> Fink TeX distribution (tetex or ptex).

Means I need a second TeX distribution for fink only? Since
there are  
to of them, which should I choose? How up-to-date are they?

How can I prevent the fink TeX distribution to be invoked
when I e.g.  
type pdflatex in the console. /sw/bin is in pole position in
the path.  
Which is a good way to chance this?
>
> I'm trying to make a push to remove such a dependency
from packages  
> which don't need TeX to build and can be configured use
a third- 
> party TeX distribution at runtime.  It puts more
responsibility on  
> the user, but since it appears that the current TeX
distributions  
> for OS X aren't going to be as easy for us to package,
this may be a  
> reasonable workaround.

I'm not sure if I understand this. Does this mean there will
be a  
change which will cause that a lower number of packages will
need a  
TeX package? Should I wait?

Thanks.

hs


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