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 -- <ch> you introduced a merge commit │<mika> % g rebase -i HEAD^^ <mika> sorry, no idea and rebasing just fscked │<mika> Segmentation <ch> should have cloned into a clean repo │ fault (core dumped) <ch> if I rebase that now, it's really ugh │<mika:#grml> wuahhhhhh