Ned Deily added the comment:
> I was wondering what the bottom text box was for. [...]
I suggest you take that UX issue up with Apple as we have no control over the
macOS Installer app and it has worked that way for a long, long time :)
If the proposed solution in Issue43167 of adding some t
Barry Alan Scott added the comment:
I was wondering what the bottom text box was for.
The usual UX for check boxes is to toggle when the text of the control is
clicked.
Because of that I avoid clicking on check boxes that I do not know if I want to
change. Hence I did not get to see the des
Ned Deily added the comment:
On the Installation Type -> Customize window in the installer, there is an
explanation of a package when you can click on it. For Unix command-line tools
package, the explanation (at the bottom of the window) is:
"This package installs the unix tools in /usr/loca
Barry Alan Scott added the comment:
>From "UNIX command-line tools" its not clear to me that that prevents
symlinks in /usr/local/bin. Maybe word it as "Add python to /usr/local/bin".
Is this documented anywhere?
I just looked at the download page https://www.python.org/downloads/macOS and
d
Ned Deily added the comment:
Similar to Issue43167, there already is a mechanism to do that: on the
"Installation Type" window of the macOS installer app sequeence, select
"Customize" and then deselect the "UNIX command-line tools" package. Another
option is to use the macOS "installer" comm
New submission from Barry Alan Scott :
The popular homebrew system installs its binaries into /usr/local/bin.
The macOS python install also defaults to /usr/local/bin where it
puts symlinks to Python like:
% ls -l /usr/local/bin/python3.10
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 73 8 Feb 19:45:50 2021 /usr/local
