[CentOS] trying to remove cyrus-sasl

Mon Jan 22 17:12:39 UTC 2007
Gordon McLellan <gordonthree at gmail.com>

So, long story short - even if I'm not using cyrus for imap/pop3, it's
best to leave the sasl library alone.

Got it - thanks for filling me in on the details.

Gordon



On 1/22/07, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> 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
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