well, i can look at the portfile from darwinports, and watch as it downloads, configures, makes, packages, and installs each dependency. i know i-installer has a log file, but i prefer the darwinports end of things because i have experience with both linux and freebsd. it just works better for me, chalk it up under personal preference. whereas i couldn't quite figure out how to install the stuff i wanted via i-installer, and both pages i had read on installing latex in OS X had about 8 or 9 screenfulls of information regarding i-installer, far more than i was willing to read when i knew i could do it with darwinports if i only knew the package name i needed to install. googling for about 10 more minutes found tetex. i also think darwinports seperates out the components better for upgrading.
port upgrade tetex
it doesn't just magically do whatever it does. i tell it to do it, and i can visually see what's going on as it happens.
i already had darwinports installed and XCode 2.2, so that was added simply for people who don't already have it installed. So all i personally needed to do was pop in my Tiger disc and install X11.app and type "port install tetex" in Terminal.app and it was installed a few minutes later.
so really it just comes down to what you prefer to do i guess. i know darwinports seperates those apps from my other stuff. it's put in /opt/local/ ... i had no idea where it might install stuff with i-installer.
it just turned into a lot of "well, what exactly is it GOING to do?" and the result was too much research for simply installing an app to try out. darwinports made it easy, and if i didn't like it, it was a simply "port uninstall tetex" and it would be gone.
Kyle
On 1/10/06, Marco Kuhlmann mk@mcqm.net wrote:
Am 10.01.2006 um 21:33 schrieb Kyle Swank:
That sort of stuff. But also, the hardest part i seen concerning latex, was installing it. I didn't want to use the i-installer app to do it since i would prefer to know what's really going on under the hood.
I don't quite get that. What's in a "sudo port install tetex" that lets you know "what's really going on under the hood" and isn't there in the i-Installer? I do not find the i-Installer kludgy at all, certainly not in comparison to X11, Darwinports and Xcode.
- Marco
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