mDNSResponder

[Douglas Furlong]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:16 -0500, Some Things wrote:
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>>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:06:48 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
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>>>You can at least stop it running:
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>>># service mDNSResponder stop
>>># chkconfig mDNSResponder off
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>>Thanks!
>>On your advice I did that.  Also it's friend nifd.
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>>By the way, I tried:
>>rpm -e --nodeps howl howl-libs
>>and nothing in Gnome worked!
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>Which just goes to show, --nodeps and --force are measures of last
>resort when it comes to RPM options. Dependencies are usually there for
>a reason...
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>Cheers, Paul.
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The only time I have ever used --nodeps and --force was to remove what I 
percieved as a "borked" package and then re-install it shortly afterwards...

I know there are probably many more reasons, but thought I'd list one :)