Re: Installing to users Home folder using Packages
Re: Installing to users Home folder using Packages
- Subject: Re: Installing to users Home folder using Packages
- From: Stuart Ramdeen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:33:06 +0100
Perhaps an ideal candidate for installation into /Library/Application Support/Emnet Software?
Or /Users/Shared/Emnet Software
etc etc
S
On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:28, James Pritchard <email@hidden> wrote:
> It's not software we install to the users home folder but additional sample files.
>
> On 04/09/2013 15:21, Greg Neagle wrote:
>> Why do you need to do this?
>>
>> I would not want to use/support your software in an enterprise environment where:
>>
>> 1) There may be multiple user accounts on a machine
>> 2) User accounts might come from a directory service and therefore have no "footprint" on a machine when your software is installed.
>> 3) The user installing your software might be a site administrator, and not the user who will be using your software.
>> 4) The software might be installed by an automated process and there might be no user logged in at all at the time of install.
>> 5) A machine might be set up and configured _before_ the main user's account is created; the main user's account may not even exist at the time of the installation of your software.
>>
>> Software should not _require_ the installation of anything in a user's home directory.
>>
>> -Greg
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