Xcode/developer tools uninstall

Please excuse this simple first time post, but I was wondering whether uninstalling the developer tools has any effect on the rest of os x i.e. is it ok to do it to free up some space?
I know how to do it, but just wanted to check it didn't make things unstable first.
Thanks,
Paul
G4+   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

I was
wondering whether uninstalling the developer tools
has any effect on the rest of os x i.e. is it ok to
do it to free up some space?
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Uninstalling developer tools will mainly remove the tools you installed with the Xcode/WebO installer....
If you are curious, open the script uninstall-devtools.pl (located at /Developer/Tools ) in your favorite text editor and change the line 34 to "$do_nothing = 1;" (without the quotes!).
With this setting the script will do nothing but print the list of files that would be uninstalled if you did NOT change this setting
If you are more from the techie side, below is the explanation from inside the script:
# 1. The package receipts for Dec2001DevToolsExtra,
# Apr2002DevToolsExtra, Aug2002DevTools10.2Update, Oct2002nibtool,
# Dec2002DevToolsExtras, June2003DevToolsExtras, 2005-06XcodeExtras.
# 2. The version.plist files in vmutils.framework,
# AppleScriptKit.framework from Apr2002DevToolsExtra and
# Graphite.framework from the June2003DevToolsExtras.
# 3. All files and receipts for all other Dev* packages.
# 4. A few odds and ends that aren't explicitly listed in
# the BOMs (post-install symlinks, help index files,
# gdb cached symfiles).
Cheers,
Walter

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