Am 23.06.2014 06:29, schrieb Gerald B. Cox: > I think there are much more important things to be concerned about than: > > 1. Childproofing software. > 2. Writing software to protect against software bugs. > > DNF already requires that you have root privileges so what > in addition to requiring you to answer Yes to apply changes so what > Those safeguards are more than sufficient. Additional requirements above > and beyond that are redundant and actually become a nuisance for those who RTFM. those safeguards are *not* sufficient i learned over many years that i can trust YUM if it comes to cleanup all kernels except the running one or uninstall packages and be sure that RPM/YUM/Kernel itself are not killed so that safeguards did not fall from heaven they where implemented for a reason replace YUM with DNF and ignore that history is silly > As far as the bug issue, that is an ad hominem justification. > The owner of DNF has appropriately rejected this... move on. nobody cares what you think becaue it is a *regression* and not a matter what someone thinks even the owner of "coreutils" [root@rawhide ~]# rm -rf / /usr/bin/rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/' /usr/bin/rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe that said to the trolls saying "rm -rf /" would also not protect you > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:metherid@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > This isn't for a plugin, but as a core feature: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955673 > > As previously noted, the yum functionality was originally a plugin but then > adopted as core feature.<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel> > > > Yes, I filed it but it was pretty quickly rejected. I am wondering if there is openness to implementing this > atleast as a plugin or will the decision be reconsidered if enough "votes" aka cc can be garnered?
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