The print/texlive/base port
texlive_base-2023 – base binaries for TeXLive typesetting distribution (cvsweb github mirror)
Description
TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It provides a comprehensive TeX system which includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world. This package contains the binary programs required by TeXLive.WWW: http://tug.org/texlive/
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Texmf Subsets
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There are a number of texmf trees in the OpenBSD packages:
texmf-buildset:
The smallest of the subsets. This is primarily for building OpenBSD
ports (approx 275MB).
texmf-minimal:
A teTeX like tree, suitable for casual TeX users who do not need many
extra macros or ConTeXt (approx 320MB).
texmf-full:
Extra macros (approx 1.1GB).
texmf-context:
Macros for the conTeXt typesetter (approx 15MB).
This was separated because conTeXt maintains it's own hashes separate
from that of libkpse. As 99% of users don't use this, these hashes are
generated only when the conTeXt macros are installed.
texmf-docs:
Documentation (approx 1.4GB).
To take load off the OpenBSD mirrors this is only the documentation
for the texmf-minimal and texmf-buildset trees. This should include
documentation for the most popular packages.
All sizes are approximate compressed package sizes and the texmf package
contents do not overlap.
There is a *lot* of functionality in texmf-full, so before reporting
"missing" features, please try installing texmf-full first. Eg. xindy
requires texmf-full.
User Local Texmf Trees
======================
Individual users may override or add to the TeX class and style files
supplied by TeX Live by installing them into ~/texmf. There is no need
to run mktexlsr(1) for a texmf tree in a user's $HOME. You can test the
installation by searching for the files using kpsewhich(1). Eg:
% find $HOME/texmf
/home/edd/texmf
/home/edd/texmf/tex
/home/edd/texmf/tex/latex
/home/edd/texmf/tex/latex/acronym
/home/edd/texmf/tex/latex/acronym/acronym.sty
% kpsewhich acronym.sty
/home/edd/texmf/tex/latex/acronym/acronym.sty
Other Misc. Notes
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Beta-testing Binaries
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TeX Live now includes binaries suffixed with `-dev` (e.g. pdflatex-dev). These
are beta versions of the typesetters, included in the distribution to encourage
testing.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/506646/what-is-latex-dev
Tlmgr
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The 'tlmgr' script is disabled in the OpenBSD package. If you were to use
tlmgr to alter/update your texmf, the package tools would become rather upset.
Soft Dependencies
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Some requirements of TeX Live were not included as dependencies to make the
package less bloated for people who don't need those features.
As far as I know:
* asymptote is in ports: graphics/asymptote
* TeX Works is editors/texworks
* latexmk is textproc/latexmk
* textproc/py-pygments is required for the minted package.
* converters/unix2dos is needed for installfont-tl script
* x11/tk/${MODTK_VERSION} is needed for epspdftk
* lang/ruby/${MODRUBY_LIBREV} is needed for convbkmk, epspdf, and
other stuff.
* Some scripts need bash.
If you know more, please mail the package maintainer.
Notes for Developers
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* If you have a port which needs TeX stuff at build time, then it should
BUILD_DEPENDS upon texlive_base which in turn will pull in
texlive_texmf-buildset.
* If the buildset is missing something that your port needs to build, then
you can depend temporarily upon texlive_texmf-minimal or texlive_texmf-full.
If you have to do this, please send an email to MAINTAINER so that we can
have the support you need added to the buildset texmf.
* If a non-texlive port installs texmf files then they should be installed
into share/texmf-local, NOT share/texmf or share/texmf-dist.
ConTeXt Broken
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I was unable to get the new ConTeXt with LuaMetaTeX working on OpenBSD.
After trying to debug it myself with no joy, I tried asking upstream, but got
no reponse:
- https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg105219.html
- https://github.com/contextgarden/luametatex/issues/7
Note to devs: if fixing context, please regen the pregen tarball after these
steps: https://texdoc.org/serve/tiptrick.pdf/0
Have fun TeXing.
Maintainer
Edd Barrett
Multi-packages
texlive_base-2023 texlive_mktexlsr-2023 texlive_synctex-2023
Only for arches
aarch64 alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 mips64 mips64el powerpc powerpc64 riscv64 sparc64