Safe removal of pulseaudio

[Karl Larsen]

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
>
>   
    Yes your right. So I fixed that with a line in the /etc/yum.conf 
file that says this:

    exclude= *pulseaudio*

I tested it and it works fine.

Karl