[OS X TeX] Lost in Mac space

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 13.12.2008 um 14:01 schrieb Friedrich Vosberg:

> Does unzip really not overwrite and delete entries in texmf, but  
> only copies the new item into the appropriate directories?


It *does* overwrite (that's one purpose of an installation) and it  
does *not* delete. The latter is not implemented. This kind of care  
is usually built into a pre-flight script or a package manager.

The contents of an archive file can be simply checked by double- 
clicking it, a copy or an alias of it in some secure corner of your  
disk. On the command line it's a bit easier to list the archive's  
contents ('unzip -l /path/to/the/file/archive.zip' for example). Some  
archive managers (Zipeg) or desktop/Finder extensions (Finder Pop?)  
allow(ed) to inspect the archive.

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

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satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play them  
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