[opensuse-factory] Re: Updating

On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 09:19, Andreas Schwab wrote:

"Carlos E. R." writes:

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On 2014-10-07 18:24, Shawn W Dunn wrote:

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On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:09 +0200, A. den Oudsten wrote:

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Op 07-10-14 om 04:09 schreef Patrick Shanahan:

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I tried, but is was wrong. Should it be

rpm -e PackageKitd PackageKitd-backend-zypp PackageKitd-branding-openSUSE apper

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Why would you do rpm -e instead of zypper rm? I don't get it.

Why would you do zypper rm instead of rpm -e? I don't get it :-)

zypper rm resolves dependencies, rpm -e doesn't.

Bzzzt! Rpm does handle dependencies, but only from the view point of the package that rpm has been called to handle. Recommends, Suggests, and Pattern on the other hand are ignored by rpm. To ignore dependencies, rpm has to be called with "--nodeps". For most of such unclear cases I look at what "zypper rm -u {package}" suggests and then use "rpm -e" to remove what I select. If there are "special cases" where a package can not be removed without zypper getting ugly on me, I either install the package with "rpm -u --justdb {package}" or, if that is impossible, I remove the executable and or readable bits from the file(s) in question to get my peace. Then again, I use Linux systems since 1996, and I am capable to repair my system in the case I got it unuseable. - Yamaban. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org