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@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 :-)
----
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
Exactly. I have one pulseaudio update waiting now. I do not want it
to update. How do I stop the update?
Karl
