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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app?
Date: 8 Oct 2015 17:26:27 GMT
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On 2015-10-08, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2015-10-07, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> 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.

False on both counts.

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