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On Jul 30, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Hasan Khalil wrote: |
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>> Tell an apple support rep you have installed custom software in / |
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>> System and /usr and let me know the response ;) hint: have your OS |
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>> X install media handy |
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> Been there, done that. They didn't say anything about having to |
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> reinstall. To tell the truth, they treated me better once they knew |
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> I wasn't another Dumb User(tm). Only done it once, though, so I may |
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> have just been lucky. Please share any relevant personal |
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> experiences you have. |
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Well, I can't speak for other users, but I find myself reinstalling |
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my system fairly often…Pretty much wiping /System, /usr, /private, /etc… |
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I do a bunch of SW testing, so I need to archive/install fairly |
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commonly. |
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And as someone who knows a bunch of AppleCare reps, you won't get |
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much, if any, sympathy if you've installed stuff in the system |
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directories, and would be more likely to get archived because that |
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(rightly or wrongly) has the potential to break stuff. |
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I know I've kept using Fink in place of Gentoo-OSX because fink uses / |
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sw. |
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Cap'n Hector |