[OS X TeX] Staying up to date with programs Gerben used to maintain

[Jens Noeckel]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 13.12.2007 um 19:02 schrieb Berend Hasselman:
>
>> What does Fink do? Something similar?
>
>
> Yes. It tells to edit ~/.profile or ~/.cshrc that these files  
> "include" fink files /sw/bin/init.sh or /sw/bin/init.csh. These  
> prepend /sw/bin and /sw/sbin before the original PATH.
>
> No-one has to do so. (When installing a package with Fink, Fink  
> uses unchageable Fink defaults.)
>

Specifically regarding ghostscript, you can get the latest version  
from fink without getting the old tetex, so there should be no  
conflict with GWTeX even if the /sw/ path is searched first.
Of course this assumes that you don't have applications that hard- 
code the path to ghostscript's binaries. What you'd get from fink  
would be, among many others, the up-to date versions of

/sw/bin/dvipdf
/sw/bin/eps2eps
/sw/bin/pdf2dsc
/sw/bin/pdf2ps
/sw/bin/ps2ascii
/sw/bin/ps2epsi
/sw/bin/ps2pdf
/sw/bin/ps2pdf12
/sw/bin/ps2pdf13
/sw/bin/ps2pdf14
/sw/bin/ps2pdfwr
/sw/bin/ps2ps
/sw/bin/ps2ps2

Regards,
Jens