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[Barry Smith <petsc-maint@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  So long as the Framework is somewhere the OS looks for it, it will be found.
If you delete it then obviously the applications that depend on it cannot 
work, but likely they give a coherent error message.

   Barry

Also forgot that version is handled inside the Framework, so you can have 
several versions maintained together.

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   Take a look at 
> > http://akaimbatman.blogspot.com/2005/06/linux-desktop-distribution_111888594099190449.html
> > 
> > I use the Mac all the time now and just love the fact that Applications
> > and libraries (called Frameworks) are completely self-contained objects that you
> > can move around at will and don't leave "droppings" all over the place like in 
> > classic Unix (by droppings I mean some stuff in /usr/lib some in /usr/include 
> > some in /usr/bin some in /usr/man etc etc).
> 
> Barry,
> 
> What happens for all applications that rely on a framework - when you
> move/remove it?
> 
> Satish
> 
>