I was just reading the Arstechnica article, which mentions this: > Instead of allowing developers to put files wherever they want, El Cap offers four canonical

I was just reading the Arstechnica article, which mentions this: > Instead of allowing developers to put files wherever they want, El Cap offers four canonical safe locations for applications, support files, and drivers: > /Library > ~/Library > /usr/local > /Applications > The local or system library directories are the preferred stand-in for /System, and /usr/local is the preferred stand-in for /usr, /bin , and /sbin. However, Apple strongly recommends that developers use /Applications for everything if possible, since that keeps all of an app’s files in a single location for ease of uninstallation.