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Alex Craft
Alex Craft

Reputation: 15336

Why Homebrew didn't removed Python directory?

I ran brew uninstall python but there's still the directory /usr/local/lib/python2.7.

Why brew didn't removed it? Is it still used? Can I remove it manually?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (1)

AlessioX
AlessioX

Reputation: 3177

The folder /usr/local/lib/python2.7 is a directory shared with the system and it isn't owned by Homebrew: as you might now usr/local/Cellar is the proper Homebrew folder (along with several other spurious folders for taps and Cask).
It mainly contains packages (installed using pip).
I wouldn't touch such folder, since it is shared with the Python installation provided by OS X (through XCode Command Line Tools): if for any reasons (but I don't think so since you uninstalled python through Homebrew) you still have pip installed I would recommend to uninstall such packages through pip itself if you want to cleanup some space.

Upvotes: 1

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