Re: Better to wait for 10.11?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Better to wait for 10.11?
Date	2015-09-14 00:57 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-09-14, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I would imagine most end users don't bother to install third-party
>> applications in /Applications/Utilities (and most third-party installers
>> place their applications into /Applications or ~/Applications). So what
>> remains is Apple applications. I guess Apple wants to keep it that way.
>
> It appears to be a strengthening of a recent rule change.
>
> Back when I was running Snow Leopard (or earlier), I put most of my
> third party utilities (which were installed by drag-and-drop) in
> /Applications/Utilities, without needing special permissions.
>
> In Lion or Mountain Lion, the permissions changed so that it was
> necessary to authenticate as an administrator to add anything to
> Utilities. I took that as a hint and changed my habits by putting third
> party utilities in Applications instead.
>
> El Capitan completes the transition by enforcing the "Apple-only" rule
> for Utilities.

Sounds right. 

As it happens I stopped installing things into Utilities (and other
subordinate folders in Applications) with early OS X releases after
finding that some application updaters refused to update applications
that were not in the root /Applications folder. So I guess I lucked out
in this respect. : D

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Better to wait for 10.11? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-09-11 23:26 +0000
  Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-11 19:31 -0400
  Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-11 23:38 +0000
    Re: Better to wait for 10.11? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-09-12 01:10 +0000
      Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-12 17:31 -0400
        Re: Better to wait for 10.11? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-09-13 20:20 +0000
      Re: Better to wait for 10.11? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-09-14 23:48 +0000
  Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-11 16:45 -0700
  Re: Better to wait for 10.11? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-11 20:00 -0400
    Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-12 00:08 +0000
    Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-12 00:11 +0000
      Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-11 20:15 -0400
        Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-12 00:26 +0000
      Re: Better to wait for 10.11? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-11 21:23 -0400
        Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-11 21:38 -0400
        Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-12 15:50 +0000
          Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-12 15:54 +0000
          Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-12 11:55 -0400
            Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-12 16:04 +0000
          Re: Better to wait for 10.11? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-12 13:57 -0400
            Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-12 14:11 -0400
              Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-13 11:27 -0600
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 17:45 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-13 13:08 -0600
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-13 19:15 -0700
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-14 14:54 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-09-14 12:35 +1200
            Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-13 09:23 +0000
              Re: Better to wait for 10.11? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-09-13 23:41 +1200
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-13 12:17 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-13 12:25 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 12:46 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 16:59 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-13 15:03 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 19:13 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-13 15:06 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 19:43 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-13 13:14 -0700
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 20:16 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-13 13:18 -0700
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 20:21 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-13 19:33 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-13 19:35 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-14 00:54 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-14 00:53 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-09-14 13:19 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-14 14:57 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 16:11 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 20:15 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-13 16:19 -0400
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-13 14:51 -0600
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-13 21:01 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-09-14 12:35 +1200
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-14 00:57 +0000
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-14 01:37 -0600
                Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-14 14:54 +0000
  Re: Better to wait for 10.11? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-12 12:11 -0600
  Re: Better to wait for 10.11? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-12 17:26 -0400

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