[CentOS] trying to remove cyrus-sasl

Mon Jan 22 15:15:00 UTC 2007
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

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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