[OS X TeX] the /usr directory

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Nov 4, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 4, 2014, at 06:09 , Art Werschulz <agw at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> In real life, I'm a Comp Sci professor at Fordham University.  We run Linux on all the Departmental machines at our campus (Lincoln Center, not the Bronx).  To get around the problem Ettore mentions, /usr/local is on a separate partition.  Ditto with /home (analogous to /Users on Mac OS X).  If we need to do a clean install, the installer can be told to respect these two partitions.  
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> The OS X installer has historically been a mixed bag with respect to preserving /usr/local, unfortunately. I don't recall the reasoning for /usr/texbin, but it's always seemed like an odd choice.
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> If anyone is interested in the historical filesystem layout, 'man hier' in Terminal (no quotes) will give you some info.
> 
> Adam
> 

Howdy,

And the Yosemite installer doesn't preserve /usr/local no less that /usr. XQuartz installs two symbolic links in /usr/local which are removed by the Yosemite installer.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)