[OS X TeX] MacTeX - a few questions

[Axel E. Retif]

On Feb 25, 2007, at 06:14, Bruno Voisin wrote:

[...]

> Now, when MacTeX is installed afterwards, it respects the original  
> permissions defined by i-Installer. Which seem to explain the  
> setting observed in my case and in a few others. Compare for example:
>
> drwxrwxr-x    6 root      admin    204 Aug 24  2006 AppleScript
> drwxrwxr-x   17 brunovoi  admin    578 Feb 14 09:57 Microsoft  
> Office 2004
> drwxr-xr-x   14 root      admin    476 Feb 13 09:14 TeX
> drwxrwxr-x   51 root      admin   1734 Feb 13 09:14 Utilities
> drwxrwxr-x    4 root      admin    136 Sep 29 10:56 iWork '06


This is how I see it in my laptop (untouched by Quark). But on the  
other hand, I didn't install MacTeX, but just TeXLive-2007, so  
TeXShop, BibDesk, etc., live outside /Applications/TeX, which only  
contains TeX Distribution Helper; could this be the difference?

Best,

Axel

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