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Does OS X place any of its own files in /usr/local?
by cpeterso 11y ago
Does OS X place any of its own files in /usr/local?
- nnutter 11y agoI can't verify but that would be awful it did as `/usr/local` is meant to be exactly not that.
- kngspook 11y agoI can't speak to El Capitan, but no Apple software has dropped anything in /usr/local that I've found in the last 3+ releases. I'm very confident El Capitan would continue that history. A lot of other apps do put stuff there though (when I wish they'd keep it in their own bundle). Even worse, a lot of other apps drop stuff into /usr/bin.
- veidr 11y agoThey can no longer drop stuff in /usr/bin as of El Capitan, though. You can't even do it with root: [mason@IT-PC-MACPRO ~]$ sudo bash Password: [root@IT-PC-MACPRO ~]# touch /usr/bin/nope touch: /usr/bin/nope: Operation not permitted [root@IT-PC-MACPRO ~]# cat 'nope nope' >> /usr/bin/nope bash: /usr/bin/nope: Operation not permitted