"hard core" linux

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>>
>    I don't have a lot of trouble installing the native mplayer rpm's 
> and putting other stuff I want in /usr/local.  For instance,  rpm 
> --erase xmms and install xmms from source.  The trouble I run into is 
> that there are other things that depend on xmms (that I don't really 
> use) and if I rpm --erase --nodeps xmms,  I end up having problems 
> when I do yum updates later. 

Dont force remove any package. Use yum to remove and a package and all 
it's deps. yum remove <package>

regards
Rahul