Re: How to make dpkg forget a package was ever there?
* Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm> [2005 Jan 10 09:49 -0600]:
> > * William Ballard <nospam_40811@alltel.net> [2005 Jan 09 23:54 -0600]:
> > > Once a sinner, always a sinner I guess :-)
> > > My penance is to reformat and reinstall.
>
> I think Willam was joking!
Well, I hope so, but the smiley isn't on the R/R line. I just don't
want newbies searching the list archives to be left with the impression
that Debian requires R/R (Reformat/Reinstall) to fix simple glitches.
I guess this is where *Linux gets the rap that it's difficult to use
because drastic measures aren't necessary to mysteriously solve simple
problems. Instead, newbies are asked to actually understand the system
and solve the problems without starting from scratch each time.
I work in a Windows shop and indirectly deal with the PCs. I see this
time consuming method of R/R used to fix all sorts of problems that
*should* be fixable by a competent sys-admin. Either the company I
work for doesn't have competent sys-admins or Windows NT/XP isn't
capable of being fixed thusly. I don't really care to know as I work
in a different segment of the IT dept., but still get fallout from this
issue.
I don't want my favorite OS to be construed as being so stupid as to be
limited to such stupid "fixes". Yes, I am somewhat sensitive about
this.
- Nate >>
P.S. How ridiculous would it be if everytime a single telephone had a
problem I tore out and reinstalled the entire phone system each time?
I'd be fired for even suggesting such a thing, yet we have a whole
group of people who "fix" computers in exactly this fashion. Amazing.
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