Subj : Silly Question
To   : Charles Pierson
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Mon Jan 25 2021 16:29:54

Hello Charles!

Monday January 25 2021 07:28, you wrote to me:

 VC>> So removing them can break links with other packages it does not
 VC>> know about one way or another.
 VC>>
 VC>> Suggest you never remove such unused packages in future unless
 VC>> you really know it is clear.  Depending on your package manager
 VC>> and yes there is more than one there are some tools that can be
 VC>> used to verify that nothing installed via the manager is being
 VC>> used UNLESS you have manually installed some products which they
 VC>> do not know about.


 > Neither od Rick's suggestions fixed the message, so I'm leaving it
 > alone. It's more of an annoyance than a problem, and nothing I am
 > running have any issues I have seen.


I had to find this out the hard way a few year back and yes still applies to
the current versions of Linux tools, I am guessing that it is not easy to fix
at least using rpm managers.

Vincent

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