MacOS – safely remove the QuarantineRoot folder

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in El Capitan there is a nice folder called QuarantineRoot (the Ars review on this matter) that contains stuff that was in /usr in Yosemite but had to be moved (because /usris now protected by SIP).

/Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-(some UUID)/QuarantineRoot/

Can I safely delete it? I sorted the symlinks to texbin that are there, reinstalled Prey etc… is there any risk of a snafu later on?

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I see to have posted a duplicate of Can I delete /Library/SystemMigration, so I consider this question closed.

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