Re: mozilla extensions

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: mozilla extensions
Date: 18:28 on 31 Mar 2005
> > 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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