Re: mac disk image images

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: Re: mac disk image images
Date: 02:17 on 02 Jun 2006
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Peter da Silva wrote:

> There should be a "/Local/Applications" by default to drag stuff into 
> and install stuff into, and "/Applications" should be stuff that only 
> Apple fucks with.

Right-o, you're looking for ~/Applications. 

Basically nobody uses it, aside from a small handful of alpha geeks. 

My guess, and it's only an educated one, is that it's because muddling 
core apps with user installed ones in the same directory hasn't proven 
to be an issue for the vast majority of people. In theory it's sloppy, 
and would be better to have more emphasis on ~/Applications or perhaps 
/Users/Shared/Applications, but in practice, it's rarely a problem. If 
you need to do an archive & install, the standard applications move to 
/Previous Systems/Previous System 1/Applications and you end up with a 
known-good set of standard apps in /Applications. (And if you're doing 
upgrades some other way, you should reconsider how you're doing them.)



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