On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 09:21:36 -0400 Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:
On Saturday 02 July 2016 07:08:18 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
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.
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.
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.