Re: How to query the package owning the file? (no packahe manger installed)

[alex at milivojevic.org (Aleksandar Milivojevic)]

Quoting Ugo Bellavance <ugob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I tried to help.  This is not a _real_ question.  It is a question that
> has been asked in a job interview.  A trap.  Please re-read the thread.
> If you don't understand, just go to the next thread, it is not very
> important.

In which case, the person being interviewed will loose wichever answer 
he gives.

If he answers "you can't without package manager", it just means he 
doesn't know
how to deal with fuzzy (to use the nice word) problem descriptions from 
clueless
(to use not-so-nice word) co-workers.

If he answers "rpm -e", than he doesn't know what is package manager.

See...  You loose both ways.

The only right thing to do when question like that pops up during an interview
is to smack the person that asked the question with a large trout right onto
his head ;-).  If he has a bold spot, aim for it.  Probably won't get you the
job (or maybe it will, you never know), but hopefully the person conducting
interview will realize it was not really that smart question :-)

Of course, this assumes you rememered to bring a trout with you.  Which will
also show you are pendatic and always prepared.

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