-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 20:54, Richard Bos a écrit :
I don't understand it.
Op dinsdag 5 november 2002 19:25, schreef Thibaut Cousin:
Synaptic (or Apt) is a good software to INSTALL things and taking care of the dependencies at the same time. But it is extremely bad for removing things, especially fundamental packages.
I just simulated to remove cups using synaptic. It shows with little red arrows which dependend packages are being removed as well. So there is a visual warning, what is going to happen.
The same thing when you use apt from the command line. It always tells you what is going to happen and you always must confirm. What else can a tool do to protect a user?
Fundamental packages can be protected to be removed. Just add the package name to /etc/apt/rpmpriorities. Should cups be part of this file by default?
In SuSE 8.0, I suggest NOT using Apt/Synaptic for changing the printing system. Here is what I did to do this: - - manually remove lprng and two related packages (lpdfilter and filters) with the command: rpm -e --nodeps lprng lpdfilter filters - - then launch YaST2 module "Add/Remove Software". It complains about broken dependencies and asks you to choose between cups-client and lprng. Choose the one you want and YaST2 will sort out the dependencies. Once this is done, you have a clean system and can play with Synaptic. - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yM8wv1vqsTa1E4oRAsklAKDMX4BC5qeM7wuV7pBshqz54Sn8zgCgk3bm 9AalBeMcEcw3ieB4xthWPlo= =NxPf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----