"hard core" linux

[Horst von Brand]

Paul A Houle <ph18 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:

[...]

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

>     In the above case you're right,  but I've had plenty of times
>     where I've had to make changes to infrastructural stuff in RH
>     which would have made just about everything disappear had I done
>     things the 'right' way.  I've never broke my system this way,
>     although it does cause problems with up2date and the like.

No, it doesn't. Just create the required RPMs and substitute them for
whatever you don't like. Don't forget to post your patches, so others will
benefit too (and you don't get to do it all over when the official package
gets upgraded ;-)
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