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> > Right... it's much better to drop them in ~/.obscurename/gibberish. > But that's the thing -- things aren't just deposited under ~/Library, > because ~/Library (and /Library, and /System/Library) is (are) a whole > hierarchy of places to hide things. > Maybe this app put junk under ~/Library/Preferences. ~/.application > Maybe this one added stuff under /Library/Application\ Support. /usr/local/share/application > Maybe this naughty one poked in /System/Library/Frameworks. /usr/local/lib/application, /usr/local/share/application, /usr/local/man/man*/allkindsastuff, ... > At least with your examples, everything is restricted to your home > directory. When you start talking about frameworks, no way are the equivalents restricted to your home directory. > With this situation, who knows where things end up. If the > application is behaved, it'll restrict itself to your home directory or > the system-wide /Library tree, but they don't all do that -- some things > decide to squirrel away mysterious drivers in the /System tree, which is > pretty much guaranteed to break the next time you update the system. Applications that do "drag-and-drop" install do that? How do they get write access? > It may be "less" hateful, but that isn't saying very much. I think you're talking about different applications than I am.
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