stop stupidly telling people to do "yum clean all" when it's not necessary

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Sep 14 02:51:56 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:52 +0930, Tim wrote:
> The dumb advice top 4 list seems to be:
> 
> 1. Do a "yum clean all" for any problem with updating.
> 2. Remove pulseaudio for any problem related to sound.
> 3. Disable SELinux when something fails to work.
> 4. Wipe out and rebuild the RPM database regularly.
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I would say removing pulseaudio is the most destructive advice and the
worst because of a high possibility that things will not work well
afterward.

The other 3 are issues where the recovery process is relatively light
and not harmful.

Craig


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