Bug#1052133: apt: E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues dixit: >Quoting Thorsten Glaser (2023-09-17 23:03:50) >> E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might >> break the system. >> >> Used to be that it asks for “Yes, do as I say!”, and this is missing >> in sid now‽ I kinda need that… > >it's documented in "man apt-get" if you search for "essential" you find: > >> --allow-remove-essential oic >It appears that there are people who will assume that when their computer tells >them to type “Yes, do as I say!” then that's just what they will do without >switching their brain on first: https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M?t=633 Yeah, you’re caught between a rock and a hard place there, I suppose. >To prevent this from happening in the future, this was changed to become even >more difficult and now one has to read the manual and pass the option above >instead. The problem is, the last time apt-get told me to look up a switch to allow something (release name change, IIRC), the manpage did not have that information at all, let alone easily findable. Maybe add… N: See remove-essential in the apt-get(8) manual page for details. … to that message, as second line? Thanks, //mirabilos -- you introduced a merge commit│ % g rebase -i HEAD^^ sorry, no idea and rebasing just fscked │ Segmentation should have cloned into a clean repo │ fault (core dumped) if I rebase that now, it's really ugh │ wuahh
Bug#1052133: apt: E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.
Hi, Quoting Thorsten Glaser (2023-09-17 23:03:50) > E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might > break the system. > > Used to be that it asks for “Yes, do as I say!”, and this is missing > in sid now‽ I kinda need that… it's documented in "man apt-get" if you search for "essential" you find: > --allow-remove-essential > Force yes; this is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue > without > prompting if it is removing essentials. It should not be used except in > very > special situations. Using it can potentially destroy your system! > Configuration > Item: APT::Get::allow-remove-essential. Introduced in APT 1.1. It appears that there are people who will assume that when their computer tells them to type “Yes, do as I say!” then that's just what they will do without switching their brain on first: https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M?t=633 To prevent this from happening in the future, this was changed to become even more difficult and now one has to read the manual and pass the option above instead. Thanks! cheers, josch signature.asc Description: signature
Bug#1052133: apt: E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.
Package: apt Version: 2.7.3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system. Used to be that it asks for “Yes, do as I say!”, and this is missing in sid now‽ I kinda need that… -- Package-specific info: -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/dash-mksh.pref present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/ncurses-term-considered-harmful present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-apparmor present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-aptitude present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-drexim present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-networkmanager present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-packagekit present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-puppet present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-ruby present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-systemd-completely present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-unattended-upgrades present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/usrmove-done-considered-harmful present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tarent-sid.sources present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/wtf-sid.sources present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-25-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser3.137 ii base-passwd3.6.1 ii debian-archive-keyring 2023.4 ii gpgv 2.2.40-1.1 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.7.3 ii libc6 2.37-7 ii libelogind0 [libsystemd0] 246.10-1debian1 ii libgcc-s1 13.2.0-2 ii libgnutls303.8.1-4 ii libseccomp22.5.4-1+b3 ii libstdc++6 13.2.0-2 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-bundle [ca-certificates] 20190604tarent1 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig ii dpkg-dev 1.22.0 ii gnupg2.2.40-1.1 ii gnupg1 1.4.23-1.1+b1 pn powermgmt-base -- no debconf information
