<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>Le 25 nov. 2014 à 02:23, Ettore Aldrovandi <<a href="mailto:ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu">ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 24, 2014, at 16:30, jfbu <<a href="mailto:jfbu@free.fr" class="">jfbu@free.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I have MacTeX 2014 on Mac OS X Mavericks (latest)<br class=""><br class="">I observed today that /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin<br class="">contains both of <br class=""><br class="">universal-darwin<br class=""><br class="">and <br class=""><br class="">x86_64-darwin<br class=""><br class="">this is on a MBA, hence x86_64, thus the latter is the<br class="">directory /usr/texbin points to.<br class=""><br class="">universal-darwin weighs 176M and I feel very much like doing<br class="">rm -fr on it.<br class=""><br class="">Is there any reason I should not?<br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>tlmgr may still think you have those packages installed. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Maybe running </div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tlmgr platform remove universal-darwin</div><div><br class=""></div><div>(possibly preceded by sudo) should do it? NOT TESTED, though.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Ettore</div><div><br class=""></div><div>--</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Osaka-Mono" class="">Ettore Aldrovandi</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks Ettore and Herb for your advices.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the situation as I observe it in /usr/local/texlie/2014/tlpkg</div><div><br></div><div>1) the file texlive.tlpdb contains various paragraphs referring to universal-darwin </div><div>things and also a line near the top</div><div><div>depend setting_available_architectures:universal-darwin x86_64-darwin</div><div><br></div><div>2) I didn't find in the backups repertory any reference to a universal-darwin binary </div><div>package, things looking like they might be one, are in fact documentation</div><div><br></div><div>3) the repertory tlpobj contains files corresponding to universal-darwing stuff,</div><div>easily identified are the files have universal in their names,</div><div><br></div><div>My plan of action is to try Ettore's suggestion, </div><div>see what it does, and if that fails I will manually remove myself (once I</div><div>figure how to use a unix tool such as sed or grep) all</div><div>universal-darwin data from texlive.tlpdb, and from the tlpobj repertory</div><div><br></div><div>I don't need sudo for that as I own the whole 2014 hierarchy</div><div><br></div><div>...and I forgot to say I have done rm -fr on universal-darwin and</div><div>used once TLU which didn't complain nor tried to reinstall the binaries</div><div><br></div><div>by the way, apart from symbolic links nothing appeared to have modification</div><div>date earlier than May 22, 2014 in universal-darwin, </div><div><br></div><div>This brings me to: does TeXLive actually ever update binaries in-between releases?</div><div><br></div><div>I thought the whole point of TeXLive yearly releases was that all binaries were updated</div><div>once at this point, and only at this point.</div><div><br></div><div>However, maybe I err completely.</div><div><br></div><div>best wishes</div><div><br></div><div>Jean-François</div></div></body></html>