On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:31, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
In any case, I don't believe that is true:
Well, seriously, if you want to install ConTeXt in fink, the very first thing that you have to do is to create a package for TeX Live 2010.
Why? If the TeX distributionn in Fink is so outdated (according to you; I haven't checked), why bother bringing it up-to-date when we don't need it in the first place?
If he wanted to support MKII, it would conflict with the version of pdfTeX shipped with tetex. And environment variables could conflict as well. For MKIV it is doable.
Either way: creating a package for Fink is asking for troubles unless you create a proper TeX Live package first to replace teTeX. It will simplify things enormously for you.
Or you just create a stand-alone package for ConTeXt, mark it as incompatible with the rest of the TeX-related packages in Fink, and use it as such; just as you said yourself, actually.
The problem is a different one. I was not able to install gnuplot without installing tetex. And many other packages depend on tetex for no particular reason. If I was still using fink, packaged ConTeXt MKII would be of no use to me since other packages would depened on tetex. Mojca PS: If some Mac addict would be willing to help, it would be very useful to create ConTeXt.app. PPS: I really don't like fink, that's why my negative reactions were there ...