Re: texlive xelatex not working [ Was fontconfig : .so.2 not provided by 2.11.1?]

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:40:09PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I don't know answer if full TeX Live distrubution is available in 
> pkgsrc, but I use the pkgsrc for my LaTeX related work every week for 
> over a decade. I have generated many documents (including books for 
> print) and it has provided what I needed. I use lots of custom 
> features (beyond the default installation), like:

I do not recollect what I might have found missing in the past (the cited
thread is 4 yr old). (A guess is it might be some bits and pieces in tikz
and/or beamer, but just a guess.)

But from the past I do carry a lingering impression of having struggled
with pkgsrc latex.

When being in the middle of the work (of creating documents) I do not like
to digress into building packages again, particularly when out of so many
*tex* it's too difficult to know what exactly you missed. Hence it is
safer for me to do something that gives me the full installation.

If pkgsrc' latex does offer that assurance some day, I'll be happy to
switch back to it.

Mayuresh.