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[Darrell Long]

I'm afraid I don't have time to do a custom installation. The beauty  
of Mac Ports is the simplicity. If you know the port maintainer,  
please push them to move to the 2008 version.

On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:38 PM, George N. White III wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Darrell Long <darrell at cs.ucsc.edu>  
> wrote:
>
>> I did:
>>
>>       sudo port install texlive
>>
>> and this is what gets installed:
>>
>>       texlive @2007 tex/texlive tex
>>       live_base @2007 tex/texlive_base
>>       texlive_texmf-full @2007 tex/texlive_texmf-full
>>       texlive_texmf-minimal @2007 tex/texlive_texmf-minimal
>>
>> texconfig and texconfig-sys are there, but no sign of tlmgr.
>>
>> % find /opt -name '*tlmgr*' -print
>> (nothing)
>
> tlmgr is new with TeX Live 2008.  Mac TeX is also TeX Live 2007, but
> will eventually use 2008.
>
> Unless you really need backwards compatibility, you should
> consider install the 2008 version and helping with testing.
> I've been using it and have only very minor problems (the
> tlmgr gui doesn't work -- perhaps due to a bug in perl::Tk from
> macports, or the X11 port on Leopard (which I just
> updated in an attempt to solve some other X11 issues).
>
>
>> On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>
>>> Darrell Long writes:
>>>> Thanks. But it appears that tlmgr is not part of the distribution
>>>> that
>>>> comes with TeXlive for Mac  Ports. I did a search for it and found
>>>> nothing (except a reference to it in a PDF file and this e-mail).
>>>
>>> Did you install MacTeX or TeX Live?  If TeX Live doesn't install  
>>> tlmgr
>>> then it's clearly a bug. MacTeX might come with its own tools, but  
>>> I'm
>>> not familiar with them.
>
>
>
> -- 
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia