Re: Mavericks, the stinker...

On Oct 27, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Alex Satrapa <[email protected]> wrote:

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> As for Mavericks blowing away stuff that you=92ve installed, it=92s Unix =
Administration 101 that you don=92t fiddle with vendor directories: all the=
 stuff you install locally should go in /usr/local, /opt/local or somewhere=
 else that isn=92t /bin, /sbin, /lib, etc.

Well /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages *is* reserved for third party packag=
es=85 and they blew it away.

Yeah, I am just nitpicking here=85 But apple has done some skanky stuff in =
the past. ex. If a user
turned on =93Back to My Mac=94 the mac would size control of one of the por=
ts that the VPN software
uses and setting a listener for this port for the VPN to use would silently=
 *fail* even though
the AEBS showed that the port was being used for the  VPN.

Once upon a time this sort of stuff did not bother me so much. Back in the =
A/UX days I would build
X Window and Tex/LaTex from sources. But alas I am in my mid seventies and =
such adventures are no
longer feasible.

Jerry