Comments on: My Daily WTF http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.10.30/my-daily-wtf/ Free Software Chicago Style: letting proprietary solutions sleep with the fishes Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:42:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.10.30/my-daily-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-4842 Jim Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:16:05 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/?p=355#comment-4842 Funny stuff... I'm dealing with the same thing while slimming down a CentOS based network appliance to be used for testing at remote WAN sites. I want basic Gnome, Firefox, Wireshark, D-ITG, Jperf, nmap via FreeNX, along with ssh and normal network CLI tools, services like ftp, tftp, etc to support remote IOS loads, syslog and Netflow analysis tools etc. The basic Gnome Desktop metapackage includes Evolution. If I try to remove it post-install, it complains that gnome-panel depends on evolution-data-server. WTF??? ;-) Funny stuff… I’m dealing with the same thing while slimming down a CentOS based network appliance to be used for testing at remote WAN sites. I want basic Gnome, Firefox, Wireshark, D-ITG, Jperf, nmap via FreeNX, along with ssh and normal network CLI tools, services like ftp, tftp, etc to support remote IOS loads, syslog and Netflow analysis tools etc. The basic Gnome Desktop metapackage includes Evolution. If I try to remove it post-install, it complains that gnome-panel depends on evolution-data-server. WTF??? ;-)

]]> By: JK Wood http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.10.30/my-daily-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-4597 JK Wood Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:11:47 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/?p=355#comment-4597 I'd just like to point out that you don't run into this problem on a distro where dependencies are not automatically resolved... in other words, Slackware. Think about that the next time you decide to troll a Slackware user (and yes, we do indeed have a package manager, and it works quite nicely, thank you very much.) Just my two cents. I’d just like to point out that you don’t run into this problem on a distro where dependencies are not automatically resolved… in other words, Slackware. Think about that the next time you decide to troll a Slackware user (and yes, we do indeed have a package manager, and it works quite nicely, thank you very much.)

Just my two cents.

]]> By: travolta http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.10.30/my-daily-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-4596 travolta Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:22:06 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/?p=355#comment-4596 so did you type yes or no? so did you type yes or no?

]]> By: RW http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.10.30/my-daily-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-4595 RW Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:15:17 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/?p=355#comment-4595 HAHA! For you Windows guys reading this, it's really in your best interests to just make a confused face and move on - seriously, you just make yourself look like a dumbass with your comments. With respect to building Firefox, it *is* open source, and any linux distribution has all the development tools you need. If you don't like the fact that Windows is a crippled OS in that regard, then complain to Microsoft. HAHA!

For you Windows guys reading this, it’s really in your best interests to just make a confused face and move on – seriously, you just make yourself look like a dumbass with your comments.

With respect to building Firefox, it *is* open source, and any linux distribution has all the development tools you need. If you don’t like the fact that Windows is a crippled OS in that regard, then complain to Microsoft.

]]> By: web123 http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.10.30/my-daily-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-4589 web123 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:17:26 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/?p=355#comment-4589 try : # rpm -e --force centos-release-notes But as yum suggest, it's not a good idea. try :
# rpm -e –force centos-release-notes

But as yum suggest, it’s not a good idea.

]]> By: nixternal http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.10.30/my-daily-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-4587 nixternal Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:07:43 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/?p=355#comment-4587 haha, I love the comments. Ya, metapackages are good when done correctly, and can go horribly wrong when done incorrectly. This was just a funny that has been noted to CentOS. You can do a network install of CentOS, which is the way I initially went with the install. @Browser: you aren't even one of the cool Windows kids, you still use XP :P haha, I love the comments. Ya, metapackages are good when done correctly, and can go horribly wrong when done incorrectly. This was just a funny that has been noted to CentOS. You can do a network install of CentOS, which is the way I initially went with the install.

@Browser: you aren’t even one of the cool Windows kids, you still use XP :P

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