Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.007 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'bsd': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'situation.': 0.09; 'subscribe.': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'python.': 0.11; 'flavors': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'sorts': 0.16; 'things"': 0.16; 'uninstall': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; '"you': 0.18; 'linux,': 0.18; 'working.': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; '2015': 0.20; 'meant': 0.22; 'are.': 0.22; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'dependent': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'install': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'linux': 0.26; 'normally': 0.30; "can't": 0.32; 'language.': 0.32; 'thanks!': 0.34; 'list': 0.34; 'clear': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; "wasn't": 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'thought': 0.37; 'things': 0.38; 'mailing': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.62; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'our': 0.64; 'world': 0.64; 'hate': 0.66; 'august': 0.75; 'fucking': 0.84; 'literally.': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'received:as9105.com': 0.84; 'received:dsl.as9105.com': 0.84; 'received:dynamic.dsl.as9105.com': 0.84; 'utc-7,': 0.84; 'edwards': 0.91; 'recover': 0.91; 'technically': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Uninstall Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:01:51 +0100 References: <3E52DBEE-7F1F-49BB-9730-BA35BF5554B2@gmail.com> <7cbf35cc-9ac2-4d76-a06b-c5436d21f2de@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-44-195-143.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: <7cbf35cc-9ac2-4d76-a06b-c5436d21f2de@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1438718531 news.xs4all.nl 2880 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44892 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94974 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 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". > The simple solution is not to subscribe. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence