RELEASED Python 2.3.4, release candidate 1
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Fri May 14 19:50:17 EDT 2004
"Laughlin, Joseph V" wrote:
> Personally, six months from now, I would have no clue as to all the
> different locations a particular program installed files to.
What's wrong with
find $PREFIX -name '*python*'
?
> It would
> be worse if the program had modified various configuration files, etc.
This is pretty rare for Unix utilites, and is not the case for Python at
any rate.
> And if you had other programs that depended on the program you were
> uninstalling, that would also lead to breakage.
If you're uninstalling Python, I would hope you'd remember that this
means that Python programs wouldn't work afterwards.
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