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: | |
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| 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.

