Safe removal of pulseaudio
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Jan 17 14:06:09 UTC 2008
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 17/01/2008, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> [...] about --force, it sounds less deadly
>> than using --nodeps.
>>
>
> But --force includes --replacefiles which *is* deadly in several
> circumstances and hardly ever needed, because what it can do is this:
>
> --replacefiles
> Install the packages even if they replace files from other,
> already installed, packages.
>
> Using --replacepkgs or perhaps --replacepkgs --oldpackage is [more
> than] enough, usually.
>
>
I have used --nodeps and --force in a few cases which have nothing
to do with removing pulseaudio. The meaning of Safe removal of
pulseaudio is that you do NOT do anything but rpm -e. If you get
dependancies you rpm -e those first. Nigel likes to use yum remove but I
am gun shy of that now :-)
Karl
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