Re: Windows permissions and painfully misimplemented multi-user system

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: Windows permissions and painfully misimplemented multi-user system
Date: 19:06 on 08 Apr 2005
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:39:00AM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> Now if only Apple could do the same to its developers.  As near
> as I can tell, Apple makes it pretty easy to drag and drop an
> application to install it, but for some damn reason some vendors
> insist on not doing that.
> 
> Apple needs to smack them around a bit.

Case in point.  NeoOffice, OpenOffice with a splash of Aqua.  Why does it 
need a .pkg installer?! 

Looking inside /Library/Receipts/NeoOfficeJ.pkg/Contents/Resources I can
use lsbom to see that all installed files went into a nice, neat
NeoOffice.app directory in /Applications.  The only installation logic is
to check that basic BSD commands (ask, cat, chmod, chown...) are all there.
Why NeoOffice needs these is beyond me.  Its a 340 meg app, you'd think they
could include a function to cat a file.  Why it doesn't trust these files
are shipped with OS X is beyond me.  Why, if it does really need them, it
doesn't just ship with these trivial binaries is beyond me.

Maybe there's a plan to ship NeoOffice updates instead of whole release
versions, dunno.  I just hate it.

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