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Authored by: bhines on Feb 08, '02 02:05:08AM

yes, the danger would arise from the fact that some pkgs upgrade essential system components. For example iTunes 2.0.3 upgraded the disc recording framework. If you "removed" blindly everything from that package, you would break anything else that depends on that framework.



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Apple vs. third-party stuff
Authored by: robg on Feb 08, '02 08:34:14AM

Although I haven't tested it, from the web page it looks like it was designed primarily for third-party UNIX applications. If it's really removing stuff that wasn't part of the third-party application, then that's definitely a bug!

If, on the other hand, you used it to remove an Apple-installed update, then bhines has it right - very bad things could, indeed, happen!

-rob.



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Apple vs. third-party stuff
Authored by: sjonke on Feb 08, '02 10:33:44AM

I used it only to remove 3rd party stuff, or least that was the intent.



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