Besides this, I was wondering if it would be possible to introduce some sort of support for separate "system" tex installations in the pkgsrc infra-structure, since official annual texlive installations are available on many platforms (including NetBSD/i386), and as much as I appreciate Min Sik Kim's work on expanding and improving supprt for tex in pkgsrc, I still find the official texlive distribution more reliable/predictable across platforms (having a broken tex system is not an option for me in my everyday work, even for short periods of time; I do understand that the design of texlive might not be perfect, but it seems to be well-tested, and does the job rather reliably). This seems like a straightforward extension of the builtin detection code, except /usr/texlive isn't builtin - but it's the same concept. I wouldn't object to this, but a) ENOPATCH and b) I don't understand the consequences well enough to support it either.
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