From 41b205f4b089f4f5f94ff01a56aed3e02faa5537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 16:53:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify macos install in INSTALL.md.
Make the binary package installer the recommended method, and
note that homebrew installs from source and takes a lot of
disk space.
Closes #4661.
---
INSTALL.md | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index b299653d2..abddaa2e4 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
## macOS
- - You can install pandoc using
- [homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`.
-
- There is a package installer at pandoc's [download page].
If you later want to uninstall the package, you can do so
by downloading [this script][uninstaller]
@@ -30,6 +27,12 @@
unzip the file and move the binaries and man pages to
whatever directory you like.
+ - Alternatively, you can install pandoc using
+ [homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`.
+ Note: This method installs pandoc from source, so it
+ will take a long time and a lot of disk space for the
+ ghc compiler and dependent Haskell libraries.
+
- For PDF output, you'll also need LaTeX. Because a full [MacTeX]
installation takes more than a gigabyte of disk space, we recommend
installing [BasicTeX](http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html)