2 Jul
2016
2 Jul
'16
4:31 p.m.
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 09:21:36 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 July 2016 07:08:18 Thierry de Coulon
wrote:
Hm... i would say you have damaged /var/lib/dpkg/status, because there is
only 3 packages in debian which depend on aptitude and nothing depends
on them. And aptitude normally doesnt destroy anything unless you ask it
really-really hard, so this hints to it too.
If I want to delete all of Samba, kmail-trinity,
konqueror-trinity,
tdebase-trinity would get destroyed too (Raspbian Jessie here, but
I've come accross the same problem with the other distributions).
I fail to see why these dependencies exist. I can imagine situations
where kmail, konqueror and tdebase could need Samba, but many more
where they don't.
I have no Windows machine so I never use samba.
Neither have I. Same with aptitude, I can't remove it, IMSNHO its a
dangerous utility as it destroyed my system about 2 weeks ago, requiring
I re-install 236 packages. I haven't nuked the executables yet, but I
just did a chmod -x on the /usr/bin/aptitude-curses. Now I sit back
and see what complains.
Same thing essentially with nfs. I found, with Dr. N. Klept's help, that
sshfs is much more transparent, and faster than nfs once setup,
qualifying it for a Just Works(TM) label.
On slow links yes, sshfs is strictly superior to nfs, but on 1Gbit and
faster links cpu usage becomes a factor, especially on server side. Sshfs
would kill a typical nas-grade cpu on 1Gb.
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Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)