[OS X TeX] Latest Test Versions of MacTeX and BasicTeX [was: Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 103, Issue 8]

[Adam R. Maxwell]

> On May 25, 2016, at 02:35 , Juergen Fenn <jfenn at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> What I meant to say was that I would prefer to have only _one_ switch on those platforms where this is possible because this is what you would expect on a Mac.

MacTeX can't remove the prefpane, though; even if technically possible, it would be really unexpected for most users.

> And perhaps you could call the menu item "Switch (between) distributions"? "Reconfigure distribution" is hard to understand because it's an ambiguous phrase. You cannot tell what you can reconfigure there.

This is my problem, not Dick's; I'll think about the name.

It is, of course, described in TLU's Help book, which I expect no one has ever read.

> BTW, TLU did not install any updates from preining.info. I tried to change the repository, to no avail, of course... Now I cannot switch back to Norbert's website because the URL is no longer available... hm...

One package (gpg) gets installed from Norbert's repo. It is not part of TeX Live; this is a one-time installation. No other packages are available there, and you should forget that it exists.

-- adam