#20189: Update docs for new 'typical' dmg
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       Reporter:  kcrisman        |        Owner:
           Type:  defect          |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major           |    Milestone:  sage-7.1
      Component:  user interface  |   Resolution:
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Comment (by mgoerner):

 Replying to [comment:6 kcrisman]:
 > > And finally: Do we even need two different distributions .app.dmg and
 .dmg? Isn't the .app.dmg just enough?
 >
 > Well, possibly.  One would certainly want to make it easily
 discoverable, not because someone using the app couldn't eventually find
 it, but because they won't want to waste time diving into the app bundle
 structure to figure out where it is.

 That is exactly why I added the symlink sage ->
 Contents/Resources/sage/sage to the .app directory. Doesn't that count as
 easily discoverable?

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