> On May 15, 2017, at 14:53, Lenore Horner <lenorehor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >> On May 15, 2017, at 13:56, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: >> >> >>> On May 15, 2017, at 12:03, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 16 May 2017, Joshua Root wrote: >>> >>>> You can hit cmd-shift-. to show hidden files and folders in open/save >>>> dialogs. >>> >>> The question is of course why is /opt hidden in the first place? This >>> smacks of the M$ "you don't need to know this" attitude. >> >> I thought we were hiding it, but it's not hidden on my systems and I can't >> find anywhere in the Makefile or postflight script where it's being hidden, >> so I must've imagined it. >> > /opt (and other things like files beginning with . /Library) are hidden by > the OS by default but it’s pretty easy to find instructions on how to turn > the hiding off or make a script to toggle hiding. My guess is Ryan turned > the hiding off entirely on his system. >
/opt is visible on all the systems I've checked, even those that are not configured to show invisible items. The OS does not have any idea what /opt is or that it should be hidden, unless someone told it to be that way. Apple for example told /Library to be that way as of Lion. I thought we made /opt hidden, but I can't find any evidence of that now.
