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Title: RPM cleanup: whats "ed" and "eject"?
Post by: whte_rbt on July 26, 2004, 12:39:53 PM

Hi all,

I'm currently scanning the RPM DB of my SME 6.0, after having done some modifications, for cleaning-up purposes.

By now, I found two RPMs with no dependencies which are not in the list of standard RPMs of 6.0: "ed" and "eject"

Does anyone know these guys? Do I need them?

Greetings,

whte_rbt

Title: RPM cleanup: whats "ed" and "eject"?
Post by: whte_rbt on July 26, 2004, 12:46:27 PM

I found some other:

"lzo" and "lzop"

Its the same with them.

Title: RPM cleanup: whats "ed" and "eject"?
Post by: whte_rbt on July 26, 2004, 04:18:59 PM

The next one is: "metamail"

Any ideas what this one could be good for?

Title: RPM cleanup: whats "ed" and "eject"?
Post by: whte_rbt on July 26, 2004, 04:38:01 PM

This were all, I'm through.

In general: is it possible, that RPMs do have "dependencies" in the system which the RPM database doesn't know? Or can I simply erase independent packages if I don't know the purpose of it (and so they are useless for me?)?

My main issue is: I cannot remember that I installed them.

whte_rbt

Title: RPM cleanup: whats "ed" and "eject"?
Post by: RavenIV on July 27, 2004, 12:46:56 AM

make a backup of your complete machine (not only the configs).
then uninstall the rpm's one by one and check if everything is working. if not, restore your backup.

by the way: why do you want to uninstall these files?
they came with SME and there is nothing useless.

cheers