[tex-live] How to overwrite mactex 2008 with mactex 2009?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 14 July 2009 Maxwell, Adam R wrote:

 > On 07/14/09 13:33, "Reinhard Kotucha" <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

 > >> On Jul 14, 2009, at 5:24 AM, YANG weiwei wrote:
 > >>> I have downloaded mactex-2009 and installed it, but I also have
 > >>> mactex 2008 installed before, then, could anyone tell me how to
 > >>> erase mactex 2008? or How to delete all the files associated with
 > >>> mactex 2008?Did mactex 2009 overwrite the same-name files that both
 > >>> contained, like Ghost script?
 > 
 > [...]
 > 
 > It'll overwrite an existing ghostscript installed in /usr/local,
 > but I think you'd still be left with
 > /usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.61 (or whatever the previously
 > installed version was).

TeX Live never touches /usr/local/share/ghostscript.  If MacTeX does,
decide yourself whether it's a bug or a feature.  IMO it's a bug.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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