From: Jose Hales-Garcia <jose.halesgarcia@...>
Date: 2010-09-30T23:04:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't upgrade ruby on Snow Leopard

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On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Rahul Kumar wrote:

> Macports installs in opt/local/bin which does not get overwritten when=20=

> you upgrade OSX. The gripe I have with the hivelogic way is that it=20
> installs in /usr and that used to get overrwritten by OSX.


Apple will NOT overwrite /usr/local.  In my ten years administering OS =
X, Apple never has, they never will.  It's part of their NeXTSTEP =
culture.

By the way, the migration application, for copying data from old =
machines to new ones, now copies over /usr/local.

Jose
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Jose Hales-Garcia
UCLA Department of Statistics
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