On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 02:40:40PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > The original intention was to at least ensure that you couldn't easily > > and accidentally put your system into a state where you couldn't put it > > back with the same tools you used to break it. > Does that include using tools like rm as root or just ones like rpm? Of course not. And, for that matter, not _even_ rpm. (For this reason, I think using the protected-packages functionality is better than adding package deps for this purpose. > If the user has got root access and is able to remove random core > packages (also agreeing to a huge list if scary looking dependencies) > then perhaps that user shouldn't have admin access to a system... It's really easy to miss something in a huge list. Or to not understand the ramifications of something in a small list, and then regret it. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
