[Gllug] Stripped down CentOS 5.3

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Mon May 25 16:58:33 UTC 2009


On 25/05/2009 17:18, James Hawtin wrote:
>
> "rpm -e --nodeps" will remove packages anyway and can be used for trimming
> things down.
>    

That's a seriously bad idea, and I strongly recommend against anyone 
doing what's suggested here.

A package-managed system with broken dependencies is, well, broken.  
Let's not encourage people getting systems in that state on purpose.



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