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 02:58:52 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 27 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 LVwfpceLqwrMHK1vhEUDlQZgkQhRndbrQg/4JB5NB7j4JGqfCc Cancel-Lock: sha1:UcoGRaDOhck5TaxmR/P5zV3b+To= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:82474 On 2015-10-08, Snit wrote: > On 10/7/15, 7:15 PM, in article d7m1u5FubmvU2@mid.individual.net, "Huge" > wrote: > >> 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. >> > OS X is a certified UNIX. I don't give a toss what pieces of paper there are. -- I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.