On 11/18/21 02:21, Andras Simon wrote:
2021-11-18 5:08 UTC+01:00, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
On 18/11/2021 11:39, linux guy wrote:
"And the "rm" man page also does not warn what would happen if one enters
"rm -rf /home"."
Sorry, not the same context. Giving an app a directory to use does not
allow the app to delete data it didn't create.
Quite apparently, it does in this case.
Just because dnf does it, it doesn't mean that it is allowed to do it.
In a very technical sense, yes, but then, say, firefox is also allowed
to wipe your home directory. dnf should've created a subdirectory of
/home and wiped *that*, afterwards. Just as other apps are creating
subdirectories of .config and do their thing there.
Except that this is a very different case. You're not telling dnf where
it can create its own directory. You are saying "this is your
directory, use it". You normally don't even use that parameter at all.
I've never used it even when low on disk space. I just create a link
from the default directory to where I want it to put the files.
Sometimes that has even been on an external flash drive.
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