[OS X TeX] Good Yosemite news

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Juergen Fenn <schneeschmelze at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Out of curiosity: _Where_ does Yosemite move /usr/local/... to if you
>> don't do the trick to hide TeXLive in your home directory while the
>> installer is working?
> 
> Apparently into 
> 
> /Volumes/<your install disk>/Recovered Items/usr/local
> 
> and then copied into
> 
> /Volumes/<your install disk>/usr/local
> 
> (The same is done for a few other directories under /private, for example)
> 
> --Ettore
> 
> 
> Ettore Aldrovandi
> Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
> 1017 Academic Way                *    http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu

That's better than the Restore Partition (it doesn't take of permanent HD space). Interesting that the <install disk> is writable; at least by the installer.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)