Am 23.06.2014 19:53, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Johannes Lips <johannes.lips@xxxxxxxxx> said: >> Well, yeah and everybody is reading the complete output of yum/dnf if >> it's trying to remove hundreds of packages? > > Well, yeah. First, if you think you are removing a leaf or minor > package and the package manager lists 100+ dependent packages, you > should take notice and perhaps re-think what you are trying to do. > Second, if you decide you want to continue, you should look over the > list of packages to be removed. Well, yeah people will know that later > If people really want some magic protections in this case, rather than > having "special" packages, it should probably be based on the number of > affected dependent packages (and/or maybe a percentage of installed > packages) oh my god - the protections of yum are made with understanding and not by blindly a random number the existing protections finally have to goal to prevent whatever you confirm is revertable by not remove rpm, yum and the running kernel, systemd and so on itself finally that means: whatever you do - even if you remove any graphical tool you can still boot up the machine, login into a console and "yum install" whatever you need that is smart - alert based on a number is clumsy i can see that number by myself at the bottom on a system where i want to remove *any* graphical stuff and anything but the core system i don't care about numbers or cross-dependencies - the only thing i care about is that after i have reduced the setup to a bare minimum i can "yum install" whatever i need instead start from scratch and insert the install medium
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