On 28 Oct 2011, at 08:47, Tim Gray wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2011 at 08:07 PM -0500, Michael Williams wrote:
>> and in principle I could add a post-install hook to the homebrew formula to do this for other users of homebrew/OS X, but it seems like this is something that would be better fixed upstream. Any thoughts?
> 
> I see you found my original issue.  I also submitted a patch for this way back on April 3rd:
> 
> http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004114.html
> 
> I'm not sure if it still works, or if it's the best solution.  But it worked at the time.

Thanks Tim. 

Would it be possible for a solution like this be applied to notmuch/master by someone with commit rights, or should OS X users patch downstream?

Mike