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Re: Uninstall

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2015-08-04 11:31 -0700
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Subject Re: Uninstall
From sohcahtoa82@gmail.com

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On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 7:29:29 AM UTC-7, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-08-04, milos zorica <miloshzorica@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!
>                               gmail.com

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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Re: Uninstall milos zorica <miloshzorica@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 07:39 -0300
  Re: Uninstall Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-04 14:29 +0000
    Re: Uninstall milos zorica <miloshzorica@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 12:01 -0300
    Re: Uninstall sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-08-04 11:31 -0700
      Re: Uninstall Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-04 21:01 +0100
        Re: Uninstall Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-05 13:02 +0200
      Re: Uninstall Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-08-04 15:06 -0700
        Re: Uninstall Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 03:08 +0100
        Re: Uninstall Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 03:18 +0100
          Re: Uninstall Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 21:42 -0700
            Re: Uninstall paul.anton.letnes@gmail.com - 2015-08-04 22:45 -0700
      Re: Uninstall Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 02:51 +0100
        Re: Uninstall Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-08-04 19:03 -0700
      Re: Uninstall Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-05 11:25 +0100
      Re: Uninstall Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-08-05 15:35 -0700

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