[texhax] trouble installing TeX Collection 2013

[Thomas Schneider]

Dick:

> I agree with you. If you go to the Home Brew site, you'll see some
> arguments on the other side.

Where?
http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
nope
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki
nope
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ
nope.

Did I miss it?

> After looking at them for a while, I decided that life is short with
> many battles to fight, and this one could for left to others.

Well it would be nice not to have to fight this again a year from now.

> Incidentally, I suspect Home Brew leaves /usr alone; it is
> /usr/local they touch, and Apple installs nothing in this location.

Ok, but why make things MORE restrictive in /usr/local?  That doesn't
make sense to me.

Tom

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