On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:46:57 +0800
Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
On 07/29/13 10:30, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> If you feel adventurous, go ahead and remove avahi without the
> dependent packages (rpm -e --nodeps avahi), and then keep using the
> broken system. If you are lucky, you won't run into trouble. If
> that is what will make you happy...
That's "good" advice for any package people think they don't
need. ;-)
Apparently it might be a "good" advice for Lee. :-) But note the quite
obvious danger/alarm/health-hazard words like "adventurous", "broken
system", "lucky", "trouble"... In addition, immediately after
that I
have also said:
> But don't argue that this is a good solution for everybody.
All those should be rather obvious warnings for anyone with a brain. :-)
Then the list can look forward to postings in the coming months to
the affect of "I can't get X to work" and we'll all be sitting around
scratching our heads only to find out it is a PEBKAC. :-) :-)
Well, in Lee's case I have a feeling that it is a PEBKAC regardless of
my advice. To begin with, I couldn't even reproduce his problem with
200 dependencies on avahi, then I couldn't understand why he is so eager
to remove it (as opposed to just not using it), and finally the concept
of package dependencies doesn't seem to get through to him...
I doubt that there will be many people who will read all that and then
still go on to remove random packages with --nodeps, with a
happy-go-lucky attitude. :-)
Best, :-)
Marko