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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app?
Date: 7 Oct 2015 01:12:57 GMT
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On 2015-10-07, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <i4SdnRas79xH84nLnZ2dnUU7-SWdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
><alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> >> Computer owner decides.  It certainly isn't dumb.  No GP computer should
>> >> be configured so that GP apps can cause a failure if they are removed.
>> >> Photos is not part of the OS.
>> >
>> > Yes it is, according to Apple. You cannot delete or modify Photos.app in
>> > El Capitan without disabling or bypassing SIP.
>> 
>> I meant that it should not be so designed.  There is nothing about apps 
>> (for fricking photos!) that should be deeply hooked to the OS that they 
>> can't be removed.
>
> it's 50meg. who cares. ignore it.

I gotta say, I don't understand why this is such a big deal either. If
I didn't ever want it to launch, I'd remove execute permissions from the
app so it wouldn't ever launch. 

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