[OS X TeX] /usr/local/texprograms -> /Library/ActiveTeXPrograms
Gerben Wierda
Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Thu Nov 30 07:38:25 CET 2006
On Nov 30, 2006, at 01:20 , Jérome Laurens wrote:
>
> Le 29 nov. 06 à 23:59, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>
>> I have been working on an assisted migration of my TeX Live subset
>> i-package from the current default location /usr/local/TeXLive to /
>> usr/local/gwTeX, to make room for the default official TL
>> location /usr/local/texlive which clashes with /usr/local/TeXLive
>> on non-case snsitive file systems.
>>
>> This works. It will migrate /usr/local/TeXLive to /usr/local/
>> gwTeX, but it will leave /usr/local/texlive alone (given that that
>> is the TL location).
>>
>> What is now left is the issue with /usr/local/texprograms.
>>
>> I think the idea of using a symlink for the location is nice, but
>> the location /usr/local might not be the best. The point is that
>> some users may share or sync /usr/local between machines. These
>> machines may have a different hardware architecture and setting /
>> usr/local/texprograms to point to /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-
>> darwin-current will not work when the /usr/local tree is shared. I
>> know for a fact that there are users who share or sync a common /
>> usr/local.
>>
>> Given that, i though it would be better to have this link in /
>> Library, which is not shared (or at least I think it is very
>> unlikely) or in /etc which is definitely not shared. The advantage
>> of /Library is that this can easily be selected by a standard GUI
>> open panel.
>>
>> So, I am planning to do this in terms of links:
>>
>> /Library/gwTeX -> ../../usr/local/gwTeX
>> /Library/ActiveTeXPrograms -> ../../usr/local/gwTeX/bin/i386-apple-
>> darwin-current (on intel)
>> /Library/ActiveTeXPrograms -> ../../usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-
>> apple-darwin-current (on ppc)
>>
>> The ../.. part of the link is to make sure they still work if the
>> volume is not the startup volume. The capitalisation makes it
>> easier to read.
>>
>> Any comments?
>
> According to my mail [OS X TeX] /Library/TeX (was local vs. global
> symlink) I would prefer
>
> /Library/TeX/distribution/gwTeX
This is very deep down and that maks it more hidden for the user.
> /Library/TeX/active-programs or maybe just /Library/TeX/programs
I like the Active in the name as it says what the link means.
> Can you explain the reason why the install cannot occur in the user
> domain?
Because that way a sysadmin user cannot install for all the users on
a machine.
G
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