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Old 30th December 2010
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I never heard about portshaker, and the whole concept is about as as linuxism as they come.

Not that "linuxism" is bad by definition, but this one is IMHO. There one one port tree, and one port tree development.

This is different from Linux where you need to "hunt" for packages on http://linuxrpmpackages.org/ and http://coolestrpmpackages.org/ and http://rpmheaven.com and ... and ...

So, the question stands: Why isn't there a textproc/texlive port (or multiple textproc/textlive-*)? I understand that development/unstable ports aren't in the ports tree, but this has been going on for more than two years ...

(I know you don't make the ports by the way, just the packages ... I just find this an odd way of doing things).
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