Whether it is SUSE or RH or Mandrake, When you remove an RPM, dependencies checking is a must. Otherwise some other programs may not work. It is not specific to a distro. Some rpms may not have dependencies. Remove the same rpm in any distro and see. On Monday 17 December 2001 22:13, David McGlone wrote: > well same thing happened to me, I lost all my backed up data that was on 3 > seperate ext2 partitions and 3 seperate partitions that I had windows > installs on (mostly games) and I never told mandrakes partition tool to > even touch them partitions. when I booted after my first install which I > installed over a SuSE install I got a kernel panic, I wondered why such a > thing happened, so I put the mandrake disk back in and when I got to the > partitioning tool, it showed no partitions at all, they were all gone, it > wiped out virtually everything except hda1. > > Well I proceeded to partition and finally install mandrake, I started to > use it and it seemed to be a nice OS until the time came that I wanted to > remove some rpm's and install different ones, and all I got was dependency > problems left and right. I tried and tried every way I know, but it seems > that when I wanted to remove 1 RPM from Mandrake, it wanted to remove the > whole Operating System. > > At this point, I totally gave up, stuck my SuSE install Disk in and went > back to SuSE. > > The way I see all this is, with Mandrake, you don't have much freedom. If I > cannot remove an rpm and install the .tar file instead, then I think > Mandrake is heading to Redmond. > > just my $.02 > > David M. > AIM: dmclgone27 > ICQ: 96210352 > > On Monday 17 December 2001 09:16 am, you wrote: > > Just to offer a contrasting and virtually worthless opinion here ... > > I'm not sure about the "slicker install" or "souped up". I lost Windows > > installs on two of my machines (Win98 and Win2000) because Mandrake 8.1's > > installer trashed my partition tables without giving me a way out, so I > > went back to Red Hat 7.2 and had a much better install experience. > > I use System Commander 7 as a boot manager, but Mandrake's installer > > wouldn't support writing the boot code on the Linux boot partition for > > another boot manager to "pick up", it absolutely insisted on writing it's > > boot block to the MBR, which is not polite, and more to the point, is not > > compatible with System Commander. > > > > I'll try Mandrake again this week, because many people have a very high > > opinion (I'm still subscribed to this list, obviously). > > > > If someone does know how to instruct Mandrake's installer to put it's > > boot block on /boot (folks seem to call this a "superblock", apparently), > > please tell me - I'd really like to give Mandrake a run - but please > > don't tell me to trash System Commander: I've paid for it, I like it, and > > it's friendly to my family users, who don't want to have to learn > > anything else :-)
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