Hey you unix folks, In my quest to as much non-system stuff off of the boot partition, I figured that the next target ought to be the /usr/local directory.
Has anyone done something like making a Local folder on the Foo partition, and then running ln -s /Volumes/Foo/Local /usr/local and then running the hack which was on macosxhints sudo defaults write com.apple.installer FollowLinks -boolean true to make installers follow the symlink? I'd like to install a wad of packages (R, some fancy version of python, a newer build of emacs, etc.), and I'd like to avoid scattering them, so that they can find each other and interact, but I don't want to put them on the system partition. <rant>This question reminds me of why I originally liked the Mac so much: I could rely on the OS to keep up with applications in strange places. I really dislike this type of hacking to keep a system relatively clean.</rant> Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
