Uninstall
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sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 14:31:50 EDT 2015
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 7:29:29 AM UTC-7, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-08-04, milos zorica <miloshzorica at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > you can't fully uninstall python from OSX, linux, BSD as there are many
> > python dependent system tools
>
> Well, technically you _can_ uninstall Python if you really want, but
> all sorts of things will stop working. In some cases, it's very hard
> to recover from that situation. Among the things that will stop
> working on some flavors of Linux are the system utilities you normally
> use to install things like Python.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! World War III?
> at No thanks!
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milos: "You can't uninstall Python because it will break things"
Grant: "Actually, you CAN uninstall Python, but it will break things"
I really fucking hate how pedantic some of the people on this mailing list are.
milos wasn't wrong. You just chose to take his message too literally. I thought it was pretty clear that when milos said "can't", he really meant "shouldn't".
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