Richard Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:25 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I can tell you the library in question was libcom_err, and I think I
> deleted it when removing e2fsprogs-libs to get around a file conflict.
> But with rpm not working I couldn't reinstall the library.
So you manually removed a critical system library and wondered why
things broke? Have you ever tried randomly deleting .dll files in
Windows XP?
Richard.
Actually, this is probably a silly example, since XP has the
silly-admin-avoidance-system (or whatever it's called) that would
automatically restore vital .dll files upon deletion.
/Thomas