Re: dependency insanity

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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Re: dependency insanity
Date: 11:39 on 04 Feb 2007
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:22:00PM +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> # smart remove fedora-release-notes
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
> 
> Computing transaction...
> 
> Installing packages (2):
>   Glide3         Glide3-libGL   
> 
> Removing packages (369):
   
>   gnome-python2-gnomeprint               rpm                                    
>   gnome-python2-gnomevfs                 rpm-libs                               
>   gnome-python2-gtksourceview            rpm-python                             

>   gnome-vfs2                             smart                                  
>   gnome-vfs2-smb                         smart-gui                              
>   gnupg                                  smartmontools                          
                                           ^^^ note these six ^^^

> I particularly like the way it feels that if I'm not going to read the
> release notes, I should at least install Glide3 as penance, as if having
> a system that won't boot isn't enough of a punishment. A hardware driver
> for the 3Dfx Voodo range of graphics cards will be really fucking useful
> in that situation, I don't doubt.

Well, at least it's not going to let you make the same mistake twice. :-)

Nicholas Clark

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