[OS X TeX] Re: Remarks on the /usr/bin/texprograms symlink

[Arno Kruse]

Am 26.11.2006 um 11:53 schrieb Claus Gerhardt:

> Let me try to answer your question.

Thank vou, Claus. Your detailed answer offers an overview helpful at  
less for me, although I am not able to estimate advantages and  
disadvantages concerning Unix problems - I must trust what experts  
say and write.

<snip>

> The future certainly belongs to TeXLive (TUG) and MacTeX's  
> installation of it for the Macintosh.

As Gerben does not continue his extensive work - Gerben, like so many  
other users I am grateful and shall miss your encouragement -, this  
may be true; it will be quite impersonal. I shall not like it.

<snip>

> Now to the path setting part.

<snip>

I feel overcharged to estimate.

> As my  personal opinion, with all due respect to Gerben's role and  
> achievements for TeX on Mac, I don't understand why, after his  
> departure, and given the new situation that there will be several  
> TeX distributions on a typical Mac, we should refuse to use the  
> best method for path setting only because of compatibility issues  
> with his i-Installer which will only install old tex distributions  
> and no new ones anymore.

This sounds reasonably. But I am uncertain.

> This is the present situation. The normal user can relax,
<snip>

Maybe that is the best advice at the moment - wait and see. But I am  
not happy with this.

My personal conclusion: Luckily I have an external harddisk, so I can  
backup my complete installation and try out without risks. But the  
situation is dissatisfying.

Arno

------------------------- Info --------------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
          & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/