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Authored by: sjonke on Feb 08, '02 12:41:46AM

I just want to warn that I used this tool in the past and it ended up removing stuff it shouldn't have or in any case made my OS X really screwy. I don't know exactly what the problem was, but it was definitely related to using this pkg uninstaller. Ultimately I had to backup my personal files, erase the partition and install a fresh copy of OS X. It was a royal pain in the butt, though it ended up giving me a nice speed boost (presumably due to disk fragmentation being cleared up). Anyway, since then I decided not to waste any more time and effort installing Unix things that I know I'll ultimate decide are as lousy as I remembered such things being. I'll wait for real OS X applications thank you very much.



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Authored by: somynona on Feb 10, '02 05:57:47AM

Agree on both counts sjonke. I posted the hint and I ended up with a small problem (specifically a "tcsh_initdir: Undefined variable" error in my terminal). You can view it and the solution here:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@92.agB1aFlJmlw^3@.f013989

I also agree with you about waiting for native applications. After going through what is admittedly an easy process of installing X windows and Gimp I still think it's not worth it. In fact I would go one step further and suggest people avoid anything that isn't Cocoa if you can, but that's probably a little pedantic. I saw someone on versiontracker call it "Cocoa snobbery!" ;)



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