[X-Newbies] Re: OS 10.3.7 on CD?

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 3:43 AM -0500 1/6/05, Charles Martin wrote:
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>>From: "Chris Walker" <chris at mymac.demon.co.uk>
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>>I would repair permissions before you do the updating.
>>Some say it is not necessary, but it may help and is unlikely to do any harm.
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>Whoever "some say" are, please tell them that I think they're idiots.
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>OF COURSE repairing permissions is a good and necessary step.

It's good but is not *necessary*. Chris merely intimated an opinion 
some have. And then advised that you do repair permissions. You're 
saying that it is necessary. That is incorrect.

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>Before doing any big system update (as someone applying a combo 
>update would be doing) it's a REAL DAMN GOOD IDEA to repair 
>permissions before AND AFTER the update.

That is correct. It is a really good idea. It  currently serves to 
counteract the actions of some of the remaining brain-dead installers 
out there. But I'm interested - have you seen actual repaired 
permissions on a 10.3.7 update when you'd repaired permissions 
immediately before the update? If so, which files/directories were 
indicated?
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