Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#37588 closed enhancement (wontfix)

asymptote @2.16_1 should not depend unconditionally on texlive

Reported by: hanche Owned by: loshea@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.1.2
Keywords: Cc: drkp (Dan Ports)
Port: asymptote

Description

The asymptote portfile contains the dependency port:texlive, thus pulling in the texlive port even for users that have TeXlive installed outside macports. A better dependency would be bin:latex:texlive.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Keywords: dependency removed
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to loshea@…

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

Cc: dports@… added

This has been discussed previously on macports-users: ​http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.macports.user/28660/focus=28669

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by hanche

From the referenced discussion I learned that MacTeX has asymptote built in. For me personally, that makes fixing this much less important. I'll leave it to others to decide whether or not to fix the port. (Not that the decision would be mine anyhow.)

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

If asymptote does install TeX packages to ${prefix}/share/texmf, then its dependency on MacPorts’ TeX is likely intentional.

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