dblatex installs old versions of tex packages, shadowing newer versions in texlive

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

dblatex installs older versions of some tex packages that are installed by texlive, some that are years out of date. Because dblatex installs into ${texlive_texmfports} ($prefix/share/texmf), which has higher priority than texlive's texmf paths, this shadows the newer versions installed by texlive. This can cause problems for building tex files that depend on the newer versions.

I think the following is a complete list of the offending files, althoguh there may be others:

/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/attachfile.sty
/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/bibtopic.sty
/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/enumitem.sty
/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/lastpage.sty
/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/passivetex/dummyels.sty
/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/passivetex/unicode.sty
/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/ragged2e.sty
/opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/xelatex/xecyr.sty

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

I guess just avoiding the installation of these files and adding a dependency would be a valid solution for the problem, right?

Do you happen to have these files installed and are able to map them to ports? Also, for compatibility with MacTeX, I probably need to add bin: dependencies instead of outright port dependencies, so if you happen to be aware of any binaries installed by these ports, that would be helpful information as well.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Yes, looks like:

/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/attachfile/attachfile.sty is provided by: texlive-latex-extra
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/bibtopic/bibtopic.sty is provided by: texlive-bibtex-extra
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/enumitem/enumitem.sty is provided by: texlive-latex-extra
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/lastpage/lastpage.sty is provided by: texlive-latex-extra
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xmltex/passivetex/dummyels.sty is provided by: texlive-htmlxml
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xmltex/passivetex/unicode.sty is provided by: texlive-htmlxml
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ms/ragged2e.sty is provided by: texlive-latex-recommended
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xecyr/xecyr.sty is provided by: texlive-xetex

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Also, adding bin dependencies for these is tricky. It looks like each of those ports provides at least one binary so you could just pick a random one, but those binaries are not what you actually want to depend on, and they have been known to move around between texlive releases. This seems like asking for trouble, but I don't have any better answers if you want to be compatible with mactex too.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Has duplicate #46691, which I fixed by no longer copying these files, as the dblatex port previously did. Short testing suggests dblatex continues to work just fine.