[off-topic, Xen's sharp reproofs] How to tell which version of a application is running

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:34:05 +0200, Xen wrote:
>Xen schreef op 18-04-2017 9:19:
>
>> Stop trying to create endless seas of work please, jeez.  
>
>You know it does cause me to question your adherence to Arch because 
>making people save time is obviously not on your list of priorities.

You ignore that I replied to Karl's mail from Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:42:01
+1000:
>- run "sudo apt-get purge tracker"

He suggested this to ensure that the OP's install is less dirty, since
people doing dirty hacks often forget what they did after a while and
run into issues soon or later.

Unfortunately it's much likely that the OP has got hard dependencies to
"tracker" related packages, at least by a meta-package, so purging might
not work or could become much confusing work as well.

I can only repeat what I already pointed out, the OP either keep it the
way it is now, but then the OP shouldn't be surprised, if the install
gets broken one day after an upgrade and I shpuld add, that then,
nobody remembers this hack, getting help from a mailing list or forum
becomes much more complicated, if some issue should occur.

This thread is cluttered with unneeded comments from you, like this
one, I'm replying, too or e.g. this one from Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:30:14
+0200:
>Regardless to then give credit to the other person that not only 
>responds after me but who responds an hour later with basically the
>same suggestion

Remove all clutter you caused and read all advice within their context,
then it's not that confusing and endless as you claim. Some advices
might not be well phrased, since English isn't everybody's native
language, but those advices are still _very_ important. 

Regards,
Ralf