Once ruby was emerged, texlive installed pretty much without any MAJOR
incident.  On the #gentoo irc channel, the advice was received to unmask
ruby 1.9.   There seems to be some variation in how this is done, but
that's basically all I needed to do.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:57 PM, james <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

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I've installed texlive from upstream source various times, without any
major issue.   It's a heck of a lot better than tetex used to be.



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>  1) equery b -f '/etc/texmf/.*'
>        2) Uninstalling all of the above reported ebuilds.
>        3) rm -rf /etc/texmf/*
>        rm -rf /usr/share/texmf*
>        emerge -C `qlist -I -C dev-texlive/*`
>        4) emerge -1 texlive
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> Ocationally I have to rebuild the system....
> caveat emptor......
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I did find it difficult to figure out how to install texlive on Gentoo this
time around, though.  Seems a good howto is needed.   This time around, I
bascially just started emerging (emerge texlive) and after all the bumps
and twists and turns, eventually I'd figured out that USE flags were
needed.   I hadn't seen that at first, even though I've installed texlive
on Gentoo before, a couple or three years ago.


Alan

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