<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 4, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">And the Yosemite installer doesn't preserve /usr/local no less that /usr. XQuartz installs two symbolic links in /usr/local which are removed by the Yosemite installer.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">No, actually the installer preserves /usr/local. XQuartz installs the symbolic links in /usr, not in /usr/local:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(254, 244, 156);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">mac131</span>:<b class="">~</b>> ls -l /usr</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(254, 244, 156);" class="">total 16</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(254, 244, 156);" class="">lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Oct 17 11:42 <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #ce33cc" class="">X11</span> -> /opt/X11</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(254, 244, 156);" class="">lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Oct 17 11:42 <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #ce33cc" class="">X11R6</span> -> /opt/X11</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These, as expected, get blown up by the installer. Mavericks’ one did the same thing if I’m not mistaken. And the changes in /etc/ are moved aside, but preserved.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Ettore</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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