On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 09:21:36 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> 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.

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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)