I don't mind having to manually move them (although an option would be nice).

I just hope that the App Store will still detect them for updates when they are 
moved to another volume and directory.

I also wonder how all the "extras" that used to come with manual install are 
going to be delivered.

Personally, I like to have a folder for each app with extra stuff, license 
info, documentation etc.

Cheers,
Ashley.

PS I wish the whole domains thing with ~/Applications /Application 
/Network/Applications (and similar Libraries) would work a whole lot better 
with Apple and third-party applications.  


On 14/03/2011, at 3:16 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> 
> On Mar 12, 2011, at 14:46, Lawrence Sica <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> Like XCode 3, you can install it in its own directory.  But it installs a 
>>> new unix toolchain and you can only have one of those installed IIRC from 
>>> the release notes
>> 
>> They moved it to /Applications.  The toolchain is the latest but includes 
>> gcc and llvm now.
> 
> Is anyone else concerned with the new over-reliance on /Applications? I was 
> rather annoyed to find that the App Store would not let you specify 
> ~/Applications as its download target, and now some of the developer things 
> like XCode and unnamed others are also being dropped in /Applications where, 
> to my mind, they have no business being.
> 
> I'm getting tired of manually having to manage every App Store download. 
> 
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