[OS X TeX] local vs. global symlink

Jon Breitenbucher kahless at mac.com
Tue Nov 28 19:15:06 EST 2006


I would concur with Jérôme on this one. Do not create links in my  
home directory.

Jérôme, are you thinking then that /Users/me/Library/TeX/whatever  
would be added to the user's $PATH in ~/.profile? I guess I am  
unclear on what the intent is to make these accessible from the  
command line. I actually created a scripts directory in ~/ 
Applications and added ~/Applications/scripts to my path for all of  
my own CLI programs.

On Nov 28, 2006, at 6:51 PM, LAURENS Jérôme wrote:

>
> Le 28 nov. 06 à 23:56, Claus Gerhardt a écrit :
>
>> MacTeX should of course set a global link. The individual user  
>> could set a local link and the only configuration needed is to  
>> replace /usr/local/texprograms by /Users/username/texprograms and  
>> use the Local Switcher to switch tex sources.
>
> /Users/me/Library/TeX/bin
> /Users/me/Library/TeX/programs
> /Users/me/Library/TeX/current-distribution
> or whatsoever
>
> but please, no awfully meaningless "Users/username/texprograms"
>
> Do not pollute my home directory !!! This is no adult behaviour.
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