On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:20 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
He replied based on false assumptions and, unfortunately, I lost his message.As an aside, I come from a UNIX background, so I didn't start with the mac world view, and I understand your desire for a unixy fixed-location system for administrative purposes -- BUT, I *like* that applications can move around. I don't consider it a bug, I consider it a feature.
Bottom line: If any application is installed in a proper, network computing style, fashion, then no user should be able to move it or rename it without superuser privileges. Exactly like no regular user can move /sw/bin/python or other items in the /sw tree.
That /Applications is editable by the default user on OS X is a bug resulting from the need to support a naive world view coming from legacy Mac users, IMO.
IMHO, our only real problem is that the unix way and the mac way don't mix well when you start keeping a database of files, *not* that one is wrong and the other is right.
I think Ben Hines's idea at least gives us a way to be able to distribute apps without totally breaking the user's view of how app's are supposed to work. The only problem it brings is that users can't drag the .app to /Network/Applications and expect it to work on other machines, but that seems a reasonable corner case, and certainly better than not having it at all. (OK Ben, you've convinced me. =)
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