[X-Unix] Trashed Receipts (was: X11 issues)

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Sun Jul 10 14:34:36 PDT 2005


On 07/10/05, ~flipper <lord.flipper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I trashed all of my /Library/Receipts, so i can't check there to see
> if that's where the pkg receipt is, but that would be my first choice
> as far as a likely spot. (System/Library contains no 'Receipts'
> directory, but the ~/Library does, so check the home library, even
> though there is no way it would be loaded there).

Interestingly, receipts are "normally" installed in /Library/Receipts, not
in /System/Library/ or in ~/Library/. BTW, why would delete any receipts?
AFAIK, those are needed by Disk Utility to verify/repair permissions.
Curious minds (mine, actually) want to know your rationale for this action.


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