On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 22:37 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 14:22 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On 22 June 2012 13:56, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > How do we make sure that if package manager goes crazy the user still > > > have a way to reboot his system that is not 'press power button for 5 > > > seconds' ? > > > > Just make sure the package manager doesn't go crazy. It's just doing a > > simple rpm transaction afterall. > > You mean, it's calling a bunch of scripts which run with root > privileges, are written by a wide variety of people with little to no > oversight, and could do absolutely anything? > > What could possibly go wrong...=) Ooh! I forgot 'and which, by design, cannot possibly be run in parallel, and which must all at least return in order for the transaction to be considered complete'. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
