Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Date: 8 Oct 2015 02:15:33 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <041020152040384688%star@sky.net> <051020151915375422%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1mbx5ka.pz7x2g1um0byN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <5614a26a$0$9311$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net ZC2lHxxiBF6NOgkqODDQqQdrSYmvrohRIilozFynazAQVOroTl Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ews2ZqdCpyf1kJBlgsXsULLkxY8= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:82470 On 2015-10-07, JF Mezei wrote: > On 2015-10-06 21:01, Alan Browne wrote: > >> 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. > > Apple makes sure one can't hack/patch one of its applications. > Unfortunatly, preventing any modifications to the App also prevents its > deletion. > > Out of curiosity: if sudo and/or root no longer have access to the full > system, is OS-X still "Unix certified" ? OS-X never was 100% Unix compatible - HFS+ is very broken. -- I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.