[issue10964] Mac installer need not add things to /usr/local

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: There'd still need to be some way to update the shell environment, but I agree that there needs to be something better than we have now. One option is to add a small shell script that can be sourced from the shell profile and adds the various python framework

[issue10964] Mac installer need not add things to /usr/local

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[issue10964] Mac installer need not add things to /usr/local

Ned Deily added the comment: Adding the symlinks to /usr/local is an option in the OS X installer. Although it is enabled by default, you can easily disable it in Installer.app by selecting "Customize" and then unchecking the install of the "UNIX command-line tools" package. The main reason

[issue10964] Mac installer need not add things to /usr/local

New submission from Russell Owen : The Mac installer alters the user's $PATH to put /Library/Frameworks/Python.Framework/Versions/Current/bin on the $PATH before /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. This is a good idea in my opinion. But the installer *also* installs numerous symlinks in /usr/local/bi