Joachim Backes wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
cyrus-sasl is required by several things, including sendmail and evolution connector.
you can do this from the command line to see exactly what you have installed that needs cyrus-sasl
rpm -e cyrus-sasl
KIDS: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME IF YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS DOES.
rpm -e --nodeps cyrus-sasl
This *will* remove it, regardless of dependencies. This is *NOT* the desired behaviour in this example. This normally never is the desired behaviour.
(that will fail and tell you every package that depends on something provided by cyrus-sasl)
Had he removed it with --nodeps, chances are good that most of the the system won't work anymore.
Please do refrain from giving away "tips" like that without further explanation and proper warning signs.
Ralph