On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:46:57 +0800 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/29/13 10:30, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > If you feel adventurous, go ahead and remove avahi without the > > dependent packages (rpm -e --nodeps avahi), and then keep using the > > broken system. If you are lucky, you won't run into trouble. If > > that is what will make you happy... > > That's "good" advice for any package people think they don't > need. ;-) Apparently it might be a "good" advice for Lee. :-) But note the quite obvious danger/alarm/health-hazard words like "adventurous", "broken system", "lucky", "trouble"... In addition, immediately after that I have also said: > > But don't argue that this is a good solution for everybody. All those should be rather obvious warnings for anyone with a brain. :-) > Then the list can look forward to postings in the coming months to > the affect of "I can't get X to work" and we'll all be sitting around > scratching our heads only to find out it is a PEBKAC. :-) :-) Well, in Lee's case I have a feeling that it is a PEBKAC regardless of my advice. To begin with, I couldn't even reproduce his problem with 200 dependencies on avahi, then I couldn't understand why he is so eager to remove it (as opposed to just not using it), and finally the concept of package dependencies doesn't seem to get through to him... I doubt that there will be many people who will read all that and then still go on to remove random packages with --nodeps, with a happy-go-lucky attitude. :-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
