I'm not sure if repairing permissions is automatic now, but it seemed a
big problem a year or more ago, and people were advised to run it
manually.
Those scripts don't repair permissions. They are scripts that have almost
always been part of any Unix system. They do what they would do on other
Unix systems. Repairing permissions is something specific to Mac OS X, (...)
I did not want to imply that these nightly scripts tackle permission repairing. I just wanted to point out that Apple knew pretty early that repairing permissions might be a problem, but never made it automatic, requiring many users to run them and spoil their otherwise nice Mac OS X experience. This was in response to "If those scripts were that important, don't you think that Apple would have put something to run them or accomplish what they do on a regular basis?" -- judging from what I've read, leaving permissions unrepaired in the older days might've resulted in system being significantly slower, which seems quite an important issue, yet Apple did not automate that task for some reason.
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