[tex-live] use of x86_64-darwin only in mactex 2010

[Justin C. Walker]

On Jun 20, 2010, at 10:54 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Jun 20, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
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>> One can complain a bit that MacTeX installs x86_64-darwin  binaries  
>> on
>> SL even if it is not 64-bit machine capable (as my intel
>> pre-Core-Duo-2 MacBookPro)
>
> One /should/ complain about that.  I'm copying the mactex list to make
> sure that Dick sees this, since I thought he was going to check
> hardware compatibility.

I don't want to make too much of this, but there are a couple of  
issues to consider:

- it may provide a (slight) savings of space to full universal  
binaries (ppc, i386, x86_64) full universal binaries (ppc, i386,  
x86_64).  Maybe  default is to install the universal binaries, with an  
option to select a specific architecture ("lipo" can thin them down).   
Once it's figured out, it's just a push of a button :-}

- some folk may have a bootable drive that they use on multiple  
systems.  Having "64-bit only" being the only option will screw that up.

Justin

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