Suspicious - it_is_today

It's not doing anything suspicious. It's just doing something stupid (checking to make sure AIM quits and setting the correct permissions on it unnecessarily).

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Tuesday, September 30 2008 @ 07:28 PM PDT

Suspicious - versiontracker2007

Unfortunately a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous thing - you're only looking at the payload of the installer, which doesn't tell the whole story, and not looking at the entire thing.

Some "single item" installers utilize postflght and preflight scripts which ensure that the software is deployed and operates in an appropriate environment. For example, that previous beta versions, incompatible previous full versions, or old support files are removed, that background processes have been quit, that a system configuration (eg: proxy server setting) is enabled, and so forth.

I agree that unnecessary pkgs (and unnecessary admin access requests) are to be avoided, but not everything can be solved with a simple drag-and-drop.

Please learn how to use Pacifist correctly.

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Tuesday, September 30 2008 @ 11:58 PM PDT

Suspicious - GGGlen

Why use Pacifist for this?

I opened the package, grabbed the App and threw it on my desktop.

Preflight?
Postflight?

Damn the torpedo's, full speed ahead!!!

:D

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Friday, October 03 2008 @ 07:57 AM PDT

Try to drag drop to 30 macs - Ilgaz

OS X apps should be packaged in Installer just like Windows stuff comes with MSI these days.
The issue with Drag and Drop is managing the software. Even on a home networks with 5 macs, dragging and dropping may cause lots of issues.

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Thursday, October 16 2008 @ 05:36 AM PDT