Re: dnf even allows to uninstall RPM and systemd without warnings

"Phillip T. George" <me+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 21 Jun 2014 12:57:30 -0500



    Its reasonable to follow industry practices in regards to safety. 
    To remove a common safety and require humans to be intelligent all
    of the time is an excellent way to introduce (more) chaos into the
    system.  Sounds like an off-list discussion needs to take place.

    
    -Phillip

    
    On 6/21/14 12:26 PM, Gerald B. Cox
      wrote:

    
      You can't child proof the world.
      

        On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:19 AM,
          Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar@xxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          While dnf
            itself might want to stay "pure" and do as commanded, maybe

            for fedora there should be a default plugin that adds some
            protection

            for the regular users?

            
                On 21 June 2014 18:02, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx>
                wrote:

                >

                > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen@xxxxxxxxx>

                > wrote:

                >>

                >> many people stops reading fdl, because of all
                the flaming and people trash

                >> talking each other and that is sad for Fedora
                :-(

                >

                >

                > Thank you.  No one likes trolling.

                >

                > It should be obvious that if you start removing
                packages you should

                > understand what you are doing.  To run DNF, you
                first have to have root

                > authority - which should be the first red flag.
                Second, when you enter a

                > command to remove a package and it comes back and
                lists hundreds of

                > dependencies it is also going to remove, that
                should be enough of a nudge

                > for the prudent person to reply "N".

                >

                > You can't stop people from being careless by asking
                them again if they are

                > really, really sure.  If they go ahead and destroy
                their system and have to

                > re-install, maybe that will be a sufficient
                deterrent to keep them from

                > doing it again.  Just like telling a child not to
                touch a hot surface...

                > some listen and the ones that don't get burned.

                >

              
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