VirtualBox

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#6639 closed defect

Change installation prefix of VirtualBox on MacOSX — at Initial Version

Reported by: sierkb Owned by:
Component: installer Version: VirtualBox 3.1.6
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Mac OS X

Description

Please change the binary installation prefix of VirtualBox from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin to respect the distinction between System domain (for instance: /System/Library, /usr, /bin), the Local domain (for instance: /Applications/, /Library/, /usr/local, /opt/local) and the User domain (for instance: ~/, ~/Library).

Please keep the good Unix tradition and let /usr be the installation domain (and /usr/bin the binary prefix) for software provided by the system/distributor (relating MacOSX this means: Apple) and /usr/local or /opt/local be the domain prefix of third-party software or installed by the system administrator.

See also 'man hier' and MacOSX Reference Library:File System Overview:File-System Domains.

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