Today's pet peeve is the stupidity of Apple's Installer packages. Stupid? Yes, stupid. I keep applications on a second partition away from the System installation. Much like I have separate root ( / ) and app ( /usr ) partitions on my FreeBSD system. Since by default, Mac OS X uses the System disk for swap space, this means it's best to keep as much free space on that partition as possible if you intend to do heavy lifting with your Mac (like compiling Songbird and other apps) and hit swap. So with the applications on another partition, I put a symbolic ...