Re: Packaging tex-xindy

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On 20/11/18 23:13, Jaap Boender wrote:
> So what is the best way to go here? Package the binary blob? Try to
> revamp the package entirely and build the thing from source? Has anyone
> ever had to deal with a similar problem? Is anyone actually using
> textproc/tex-xindy successfully and am I just doing something wrong?

make a xindy package from the texlive-20180414-source/utils/xindy
subdirectory of the texlive tarball, and then make tex-xindy depend on it.

cheers
mark