On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
Read the post. I didn't say that Apps installed by Fink should be inRight, they work fine everywhere. What would stop a user from moving it out of /sw/Applications? In fact, I would expect users to go "I want all of my apps in one place", and move them into /Applications, first thing they do...
/Applications. They should be in /sw/Applications, to further follow the Fink
guidelines. They work fine there.
Exactly as it would in any properly administrated network computing environment.I don't think it's necessarily a bug, it's just a historical difference in the way user control is treated between mac and unix. It's not like they made it user-modifiable by accident. Application bundles are made to be movable. That's why they're built that way.
The Applications directory that Fink installes into would be owned by root or
otherwise non-writable by the user. That /Applications is writable by a
'normal' OS X user is a bug, IMO.
I said nothing about projects that require themselves to be installed in aYour original post had implied that a (possibly mobile) .app bundle is the same thing as a regular command-line binary /sw/bin/python, so I assumed you meant .app bundles that somehow were not allowed to move because they depended on some specific path info.
particular location.
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