On 05/04/2012, at 10:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> oh... I didn't know that. I just took a look in my /usr/local, and found a 
> whole bunch of stuff for texlive, and then various programs that I remember 
> installing.
> 
> is there a recommended place for me to put these programs?
> 
> 
> On Apr 4, 2012, at 2:12 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> I don't install things there, but there are things in there (mostly from 
>>> Mac OS) that I'd like to keep and use.
>> 
>> I might be wrong but I understand OS X itself does not put anything in 
>> /usr/local. Anything you might have there has probably come from other third 
>> party applications you have installed, not the system itsdelf.

This is not smoke-and-mirrors.
I cannot see anything that would affect, and none of my macports are affected 
by the tex stuff in /usr/local
If you are not a 'developer' and the concept of 'include files' libararies' 
'executables' is alien sure adopt the 'never use /usr/local' paradigsm else 
just be sensible

James
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