Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- Subject: Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:40:14 +0100
Robert T Wyatt wrote:
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I think you're fortunate if this was your only side effect; my Update
experience included legacy (now-broken) gcc's, etc (admittedly this
could perhaps have been prevented by uninstalling the old XCode before
the upgrade, but it didn't cross my mind at the time). I found that an
I always uninstall the dev tools before installing new ones. This does
not take much time, and I have seen enough screwed-up installations to
remember this one. And for /usr/X11R6 where I had some fears, the
upgrade seems to have worked correctly.
Archive and Install (preserving users) got around quite a bit of
messiness (but it still left things like .xinitrc lying around like a
snake in the grass...). Too dramatic? Anyway, I only have one set of man
pages now.
Archive-and-install is a different story. It takes time. I usually need
several days until I have recovered all necessary configurations, and
then there are still one or two I forget until it's too late :-(
It is weird that Apple can't get something as fundamental as the
installer right. Like for the path config stuff, they prefer to
introduce new tricks with new bugs instead of fixing the bugs of the old
system. If you have 10.5.1 installed, just have a look at the new
pkgutil command, using
pkgutil --verify com.apple.pkg.update.os.10.5.1
and see how many "Missing" files it shows.
--
Martin
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