Re: Safe removal of pulseaudio

[Brian Chadwick <brianchad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>    My F8 had a lot of rpm's with libs and binary files that make up a 
> working system. I find it to my advantage to remove these files. I 
> used a method I thought was going to be automatic using "yum". I used 
> "yum remove pulseaudio*" and I got a long list of things being 
> deleted. I didn't pay much attention but discovered my entire system 
> was killed!
>
>    When I installed F8 and after getting it set up I put the F8 DVD 
> back into the computer and looked at all the rpm's loaded and went to 
> those with pulseaudio in the name. There were about 5 and it was 
> simple to erase them if you picked the right ones first. I used no 
> "rpm -e --nodep" and they all are gone. I then had a total "update" 
> and I looked at /var/log/yum.log and see no more pulseaudio updates. 
> This may have been because I erased the original ones.
>
> Karl
if you dont want to use pulseaudio regress to Fedora 7. its that simple 
instead of trying to to do inexperienced surgery on F8