Re: Uninstall

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On 04/08/2015 19:31, sohcahtoa82@gmail.com wrote:
> 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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Mark Lawrence

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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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