Safe removal of pulseaudio
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Jan 17 15:55:02 UTC 2008
Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 07:06 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> 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 :-)
>>
> ----
> as long as you remain oblivious to the fact that you really don't know
> what you're talking about, I would suppose that makes sense.
>
> The fact is, the methodology you have chosen, those packages you removed
> will return the next time one of the remaining packages is updated.
>
> Craig
>
>
Exactly. I have one pulseaudio update waiting now. I do not want it
to update. How do I stop the update?
Karl
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