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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Snow Leopard retires..
Date: 3 Mar 2014 04:29:08 GMT
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On 2014-03-03, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <5313d708$0$32622$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com> 
>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> On 14-03-02 12:59, Lewis wrote:
>
>>> That's true, you can't upgrade it, but you can install it. There is no
>>> "disk zapping" involved though, you just have to install it as a new
>>> install, everything previously on the disk remains exactly where it was.
>
>> I doubt any unix utilities you added in the /usr/bin or other similar
>> unix directories survive.
>
> I don't install into /usr/bin, but usr/local/bin has survived on my
> machines since 10.5.

Yep.

It definitely wouldn't be a good idea to install things in /usr/bin or
/usr/sbin and expect them not to change when you install system updates.

I have never had anything in /usr/local get modified by system updates.

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