applications_dir under prefix (was: Re: Framework install location)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 13, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Applications outside /Applications or ~ are not found by the system,
>> so "open" and Finder won't be able to use them to open files.
>
> As I said, I was unable to verify that. I moved my /Applications/
> MacPorts outside /Applications and "open -a" was still able to find
> them. Maybe they were cached in some way.

Yes, they were cached.

See

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/LaunchServicesConcepts/LSCConcepts/chapter_2_section_5.html#/ 
/apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000999-CH202-BABEJFCD

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