Safe removal of pulseaudio

[Karl Larsen]

Brian Chadwick wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>    My F8 had a lot of rpm's with libs and binary files that make up a 
>> working system. I find it to my advantage to remove these files. I 
>> used a method I thought was going to be automatic using "yum". I used 
>> "yum remove pulseaudio*" and I got a long list of things being 
>> deleted. I didn't pay much attention but discovered my entire system 
>> was killed!
>>
>>    When I installed F8 and after getting it set up I put the F8 DVD 
>> back into the computer and looked at all the rpm's loaded and went to 
>> those with pulseaudio in the name. There were about 5 and it was 
>> simple to erase them if you picked the right ones first. I used no 
>> "rpm -e --nodep" and they all are gone. I then had a total "update" 
>> and I looked at /var/log/yum.log and see no more pulseaudio updates. 
>> This may have been because I erased the original ones.
>>
>> Karl
>>
> if you dont want to use pulseaudio regress to Fedora 7. its that 
> simple instead of trying to to do inexperienced surgery on F8
>
    I am not a Power User of Fedora, but I still have a percentage of 
the mental ability from my younger years where I made several Million 
Dollars. The way I did this is clear. I wanted Skype to work but it was 
still effected by pulseaudio!

    I then went back to an old message from Nigel of 2007-12-23 and 
found out what he took out. He used "yum remove filename" but I used 
#rpm -i filename to the same effect. Skype now works like it should.

Karl