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Lets hope that it doesn't require us to re-install all of our *nix tools like every other release did in the past.
by emehrkay 14y ago
Lets hope that it doesn't require us to re-install all of our *nix tools like every other release did in the past.
- dljsjr 14y agoI've never had to reinstall my *nix tools when using OS X. Where are you installing them? OS X respects all of the guarantees in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard so if you aren't installing custom-built binaries in /usr/local then the problem isn't OS X.
- emehrkay 14y agoWith every update I seem to have to reinstall just about any command line tool that I've previously installed because either they've moved some executables, or deprecated something , or the old binaries simply do not work with the newer version of the os. MySQL is probably the biggest annoyance with regard to upgrading. I don't believe that this is just a thing that I go through because the answers to my problems are a Google search away and I've taken an 07 MBP from Leopard to Mountain Lion.
- dljsjr 14y agoI've never had that problem, but I've only been on OS X since Snow Leopard, and it seems that things have remained pretty consistent. I also try to do as much installation from Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/ http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/) as possible, so that I can let the package manager worry about stuff like that.
- hnriot 14y agoOSX is unix??? It already comes with the standard set of tools. And what's a unix hacker doing complaining they need to recompile their toolset?? Whimp :)
- timc3 14y agoThe tools for recompiling and libraries packages depend on are broken in new and wonderful ways which is why this is no fun ;-)