Ok, to start off with I learned a very valuable lesson today, I was under the assumption (since I hadn’t done it before) that saslauthd was only used by my mail system (yeah go figure I don’t know everything), I decided it would be a good idea to uninstall it as I moved mail handling to google apps. I initially set up the email to basically prove that I could do it and run it for a while without being used as an anonymous relay and such, so my install was *pretty* secure with all the normal caveats. So back to the lesson, I decided to uninstall saslauthd (smacks forehead) and it then decided to uninstall php5 and a bunch of other packages that I needed for the website to run (yes I obviously fixed it) but here are a couple of valuable lessons that I have learned:

1. If you have a global bashrc (or rc) alias rm to rm=’rm -i’ as soon as you setup the system (especially for root).
2. If you’re going to remove a package that you don’t really know much about, do a test run of some sort (all package managers have the functionality builtin (if they don’t why in gods name would you be using it?)).

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