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Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:55:03 -0600
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On 05/31/2013 09:20 AM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
> Why so many pythons in my system. Now in the case of my Python3
> installation, it looks like i have two parallel installations of
> Python3, but i don't. One is almost certainly a symlink to the other
> and not an actual installation.

Well is it a symlink?

> I'm thinking of:
> 
> yum remove python
> yum remove python3
> yum remove python3.3

What a fantastic way to completely break your os!  Python 2 is is a deep
dependency of CentOS.  You cannot remove it.  Python3 and 3.3 can be
removed of course.