On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> Whenever I've had to get rid of extra installed packages I've just >> checked yum.log, but something more automatic might be useful to some. > > I tend to concur, but I also think that you can't keep people from doing > stupid things, e.g. "# rm -rf /". > > "Once you make something idiot-proof, nature creates better idiots." True, but we've shown here that, out of the box, Fedora is fairly close to having *some* idiot-proofness. One approach would be to: 1. Make yum-protect-packages mandatory in @core 2. include /etc/sysconfig/protected-packages.d/core.list in yum-protect-packages that contains @core listed. As simple as that, even Joe Plumber has a protected Fedora install. For that matter, would not even Joe Linux-guru benefit? If needed, the latter could always "use the --override-protection command-line option." Hmm, too easy. I'm sure I've overlooked something. jerry -- Store in cool, dry place. Rotate stock. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
