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10.5: Join 'wheel' group as possible fix for system issues
Authored by: Josh43 on Mon, Apr 7 2008 at 10:11AM PDT

I would think that this would apply more if you were tinkering with "non-OSX" unix stuff - like Fink, etc.

It's very likely that at least a few of the applications not designed for OSX are still using the wheel security group since it's a valid way of doing things, just not the OSX way.