[OS X TeX] Using 'ditto' to shrink /usr/local/texlive folder

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 29.1.2012 um 22:40 schrieb Simon Burrell:
> 
>> In addition, it might be nice to thin the 'texlive' folder by also using
>> the '--arch x86_64' switch---my Mac uses the 64-bit kernel by default, you
>> see.  Does anyone know whether this particular switch would cause problems?
> 
> I think you could do something much better: delete the 32-bit stuff! Presumingly you have:
> 
> 	pete 363 /\ ls -l /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin
> 	total 0
> 	drwxr-xr-x  344 root  pete  11696  6 Jan 10:21 universal-darwin
> 	drwxr-xr-x  343 root  pete  11662  6 Jan 10:21 x86_64-darwin
> 
> So just delete /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin! To see if there are any files which don't fit exactly into your hardware try this shell command:
> 
> 	find /usr/local/texlive/2011 -type f | xargs file
> 
> The command lipo allows to -remove an unused or inappropriate architecture...
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete


Howdy,

Would that mess up tlmgr updates?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)