On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:46:57 +0800
Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> 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

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