On 01/05/2014 11:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> said:
where would it be useful to uninstall base-package and YUM/DNF itself
bringing your system in a non-recoverable state?

I already offered a couple of examples that you ignored (just a couple
that came to mind, certainly not an exhaustive list):

When will it be useful and correct to remove the *running* kernel (that is what yum protects you from doing)?

Yum also protects you from removing yum, 'Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected'. Is that bad also? As long as you have rpm installed you can download the yum rpm, and re-install yum, so why protects it? Could it be because yum has a user perspective, making it a tad harder for the non technically oriented user to do bad things to the system? Leaving the bad things to the more technically oriented user?

Lars
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