On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 15:11 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I think it would be more pleasant to use the word "wrong" instead of > "stupid". Just for better relations between posters. If it wasn't so commonly badly advised, I might agree. But it's often the first thing, and only, thing said to people, and by far too many posters, despite the (far less frequent) sensible warnings not to offer that advice. I say it's dumb/stupid, because it's usually given without rhyme or reason by one person who doesn't really know what they're advising to another person who doesn't know what they're doing. Just like the old close windows, open windows, reboot, retry, routine, where people expect an idiotic sequence of events to magically fix some problem. The dumb advice top 4 list seems to be: 1. Do a "yum clean all" for any problem with updating. 2. Remove pulseaudio for any problem related to sound. 3. Disable SELinux when something fails to work. 4. Wipe out and rebuild the RPM database regularly. -- The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
