[OS X TeX] Good Yosemite news

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
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>> On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
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>>>> 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
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Well, actually <your install disk> is none other than your usual MacintoshHD remounted under /Volumes (/ is not the usual one, it's the installer's).
> 
> --Ettore

Howdy,

I assume it's deleting the extra stuff before quitting. Strange that it basically does a cp -R rather than mv which is quick and doesn't really move all those files individually.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)