Been reading this for a while and I'm getting annoyed by the 'you should know what you are doing' mob. There can be no reason not to have safe guards in dnf to save you from the oh sh#t moments. Everyone has those at some time and those who are learning Linux need these guards to avoid them trashing their system. Everyone starts from a little knowledge base and we should (must) take that on-board.
It's irrelevant whether yum does or doesn't have this. If dnf is the new and improved then it should have these from the off else what's to gain from an end SAs point of view. No point in just creating a like-for-like replication. Make it better and safer or don't bother.
Jon
On 24 Jun 2014 10:37, "Richard Hughes" <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 24 June 2014 10:31, Thomas Bendler <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> you need to unlock the gun before you can shoot in your foot...
> ...and modern systems ask you up to four, five times
How many different locks does a gun have? Last time I checked there
was one safety catch -- DNF asks you for 'y/N' confirmation with a
HUGE list of packages to be removed. If you're not sure whether
removing systemd or glibc is a bad idea, perhaps having root access
isn't the best plan in the world. There are _so_ _many_ _ways_ to hose
your system with root access, I really don't think we can or should
baby-proof just one low level command.
Richard
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