Safe removal of pulseaudio

[Karl Larsen]

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