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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Uninstall
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:29:11 +0000 (UTC)
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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.

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