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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.

commit41b205f4b089f4f5f94ff01a56aed3e02faa5537 authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> dateSat 19 May 2018, 16:53 (8 years ago) parent884aef3
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@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
1717
1818## macOS
1919
20− - You can install pandoc using
21− [homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`.
22−
2320 - There is a package installer at pandoc's [download page].
2421 If you later want to uninstall the package, you can do so
2522 by downloading [this script][uninstaller]
@@ -30,6 +27,12 @@
3027 unzip the file and move the binaries and man pages to
3128 whatever directory you like.
3229
30+ - Alternatively, you can install pandoc using
31+ [homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`.
32+ Note: This method installs pandoc from source, so it
33+ will take a long time and a lot of disk space for the
34+ ghc compiler and dependent Haskell libraries.
35+
3336 - For PDF output, you'll also need LaTeX. Because a full [MacTeX]
3437 installation takes more than a gigabyte of disk space, we recommend
3538 installing [BasicTeX](http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html)