[OS X TeX] Re: Remarks on the /usr/bin/texprograms symlink

[Claus Gerhardt]

Joachim,

I usually have no difficulties understanding complex arguments and  
trivial ones as well.

Claus




On Nov 26, 2006, at 2:39, Joachim Kock wrote:

> Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> Technically it is no problem to set a symlink locally, however any
>> system wide setting that points to a different tex source will cause
>> problems for the command line unless local provisions are taken.
>
> Since I don't understand a word of what you are saying here, I  
> assume you
> have not understood my point either...
>
> The point is simply that if you change the symlink, this change  
> affects
> *all* users on the systems.  There is no such thing as a symlink  
> valid for
> one user and not for another.  Hence it is not reasonable to use  
> the tex
> switcher script on a multi-user system (unless of course you  
> deliberately
> want to impose your changes on everybody else).
>
> Were the tex switcher to be used by a non-admin user wanting to  
> override
> the sysadmin's idiosyncrasies, or just by a user wanting to experiment
> without bothering others, it would have to perform its switch by  
> writing
> to ~/.profile and ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
>
> Cheers,
> Joachim.
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