[OS X TeX] LaTeX Updater i-Package updated

[George Gratzer]

Dear Josep Maria,

This really frightens me. What about helping us Unix idiots?

What am I to do? Could somebody give us instructions?

Do I uninstall and then install. Just install and it will overwrite?

GG

On May 1, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Josep M. Font wrote:

> El 01/05/2006, a les 16:11, Martin Stokhof va escriure:
>
>> isn't the point of putting a newer, but experimental (so perhaps  
>> not completely reliable and/or compatible) version in texmf.local  
>> this that TeX will use whatever is in texmf.local first (actually  
>> after whatever you have put in ~/Library/texmf, but forget about  
>> that), so you will actually be running the new version, while the  
>> older version is maintained in texmf (but not used)? That way if  
>> something turns out to be wrong with the new version you can  
>> gracefully degrade  to the old version, simply by removing  
>> whatever is in texmf.local.
>
> Oh, yes, of course. And this is indeed an important and useful  
> feature of Gerben's setup... but how many of its "normal" users do  
> know this ? That's why I didn't suggest to change this behaviour, I  
> just suggested to explain it better... What seems to me that should  
> be avoided is that one i-package appears to be a "subset" of  
> another one (as a LaTeX installation is a "subset" of a TeX  
> installation), while in the inner workings it is slightly more  
> complicated. If a user sees "LaTeX updater", she should understand  
> clearly what it will do... And when updating the TeX installation a  
> reminder of first uninstalling the LaTeX updater should also  
> appear. Insiders are of course aware that any additions they have  
> made to texmf.local will remain, but what about non-insiders ?
>
> JMaF
>
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