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

> 
> As for Mavericks blowing away stuff that you’ve installed, it’s Unix 
> Administration 101 that you don’t fiddle with vendor directories: all the 
> stuff you install locally should go in /usr/local, /opt/local or somewhere 
> else that isn’t /bin, /sbin, /lib, etc.

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

Yeah, I am just nitpicking here… But apple has done some skanky stuff in the 
past. ex. If a user
turned on “Back to My Mac” the mac would size control of one of the ports 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




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