Re: Mac stuff

>>  In the case of odd dialogs, I'd love to see your examples. I'd say 
>> Windows is far and above the king of useless confirmation dialogs and 
>> meaningless errors. Just curious which ones you are referring to.

Here is another one.  When going to install a software package
(which contains files I am going to execute), I usually get
asked if a program that comes with the package can be run
to see if the package should be installed.

Why exactly would I trust a package enough to want to install
it, but not trust any pre-installation checks it has?

Unix SVR4 packages do this as well.  They even point out the
pre-install checks will be run as root.  This is all one of
those security pretense things.  Either the entire package
is good or not.  Under what circumstances would I be fearful
of running the pre-installation checks it includes and not
the contents it later installs.

Roger


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