It would be a bit safer to invoke it as rpm -e --test tetex-fonts then even if you accidentally do it as root, the package will not be erased. Dave On Nov 21, 2007 12:53 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 11:45 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote: > > If I'm not using tetex, do I need it and all those fonts? Are they > > used by any other major components like maybe XFCE? > > If you try rpm -e tetex-fonts as an ordinary user, which has no rights > to remove packages, the rpm command will show you what it'd like to do, > or refuse to do, without actually making any changes. > > ]$ rpm -e tetex-fonts > error: Failed dependencies: > tetex-fonts is needed by (installed) a2ps-4.13b-65.fc7.i386 > tetex-fonts = 3.0 is needed by (installed) tetex-3.0-40.3.fc7.i386 > tetex-fonts = 3.0 is needed by (installed) tetex-dvips-3.0-40.3.fc7.i386 > > You can try similar tests with the dependencies, to work out if you can > remove them, or they remove other things that you want to keep. > > -- > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
