Michael Schwendt wrote:
On 17/01/2008, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
