On Dec 9, 2019, at 18:42, David Klann <[email protected]> wrote:
> More details: you *could* do:
>
> sudo rpm --erase --no-deps hpklinux
>
> I'm not completely sure how CentOS will behave when you next do a "yum
> upgrade" and there is also a Rivendell upgrade. I believe yum will simply re-
> install the hpklinux package, and you'll have to remove it again. Or the alsa-
> firmware package will conflict with the upgrade and you'll have to do
> something like "yum upgrade --skip-broken" to get it to install. Either way,
> it will probably require on-going attention over the life of the system...
You do *not* want to do this! In addition to being just a Really Bad Idea in
general, it will break Rivendell. This is because the ‘hpklinux’ package
provides user-space library components in addition to the kernel driver;
removing those will mean that caed(8) will have unsatisfied link dependencies
and hence be unable to run. This true whether there is an ASI card actually
installed or not.
The package dependency system is there for a reason. You should never bypass it
on a production system. Even in an ‘experimental’ setup, you have to very
careful. It’s easy to remove something essential inadvertently and wind up with
a completely non-functional system! It can be near-impossible to recover from
such a situation short of completely reinstalling the OS.
Cheers!
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