Re: removable setup rpm?!

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:07:48 +0200, Petr Stodulka wrote:

> > *ouch*  Covering such a corner-case is of limited use, IMO.
> > What other package tools would benefit from such a protection?
> >   
> 
> It's corner case, but user is user. We could say same thing about udev, systemd, dnf...
> Why these are protected? Who would want to remove it from the system, when they know
> such operation will break system significantly? The protection has some purpose and
> for me is not relevant, how much is possible, that someone would do that improbably
> action. I saw many situations that were *impossible*, but user can do everything. So
> the elementary set of packages should be protected.

Many "elementary" packages are not protected, and their removal can break
a system in various ways. Adding protections to Yum/DNF config gives a false
sense of security.
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