Hello Charles!

Monday January 25 2021 07:28, you wrote to me:

VC>> So removing them can break links with other packages it does not
VC>> know about one way or another.
VC>>
VC>> Suggest you never remove such unused packages in future unless
VC>> you really know it is clear. Depending on your package manager
VC>> and yes there is more than one there are some tools that can be
VC>> used to verify that nothing installed via the manager is being
VC>> used UNLESS you have manually installed some products which they
VC>> do not know about.


> Neither od Rick's suggestions fixed the message, so I'm leaving it
> alone. It's more of an annoyance than a problem, and nothing I am
> running have any issues I have seen.


I had to find this out the hard way a few year back and yes still applies to
the current versions of Linux tools, I am guessing that it is not easy to fix
at least using rpm managers.

Vincent

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