Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app?
Date	2015-10-07 01:12 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d7j9spF9dd6U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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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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Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-05 23:14 +0000
  Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-05 19:15 -0400
    Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 13:05 -0400
      Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-07 12:07 +1300
        Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-07 00:30 +0000
          Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-06 20:38 -0400
            Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-07 00:37 -0400
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-07 06:39 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-07 12:31 -0400
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-07 23:40 +1300
        Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 21:01 -0400
          Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 01:03 +0000
            Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-06 21:05 -0400
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 01:10 +0000
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-06 21:18 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 01:25 +0000
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-07 00:45 -0400
            Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 20:28 -0600
            Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-07 08:42 -0400
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-10-07 06:58 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-07 12:59 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 17:10 +0000
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-07 12:52 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-07 18:49 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-08 13:14 +1300
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 08:44 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-08 08:08 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-08 13:42 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 16:25 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 15:49 +0000
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-08 16:29 -0400
          Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-06 21:05 -0400
            Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 01:12 +0000
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-07 00:46 -0400
          Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-07 00:41 -0400
            Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-08 02:15 +0000
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 19:41 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-08 02:58 +0000
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 20:44 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-07 23:00 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 21:01 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 00:13 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 08:57 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 12:19 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-08 13:44 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 13:54 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 11:05 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 14:11 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 11:23 -0700
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 20:25 +0000
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-08 14:28 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 14:31 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-08 16:09 -0400
                Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-08 22:27 +0000
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-07 23:00 -0400
              Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-08 17:26 +0000
      Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-06 16:18 -0700
  Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-05 19:20 -0400
    Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-05 23:32 +0000
      Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-06 14:17 +1300
        Re: Safe to Delete Photos.app? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-06 01:26 +0000

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