On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 5 January 2014 18:12, Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote: > > the ordianry user - i doubt > > The "ordinary user" won't do "yum erase kernel" either, so that's moot. > The rescue kernel is another option, right there on the boot menu; if > you actually removed all running kernels, it would be the _only_ Fedora > option (and the only option at all on a system without multiple OSes > installed, so booted by default). > > > Law of Out of Date Technical Support: > > If an expert says "no ordinary user" would ever do a command, they have not > worked front line Tech Support recently enough. Sure. But I don't know how much hand holding with the CLI is practical and necessary. I can't tell you how many times I've done wipefs -a /dev/sdb, when I meant wipefs -a /dev/sdc because the f'n node ordering changed the drives around. I don't expect to be hand held through that, I mean what could even be done? mkfs.xfs has had (and mkfs.btrfs now also has) a -f flag that's required to format over an existing volume. That's saved me a few times. However, now that I'm used to it, I bet it won't anymore because I'm already just including -f as second nature. *shrug* Since "* remove kernel" appears to be inspecific, removing all kernels isn't what I'd expect. It's not how mv or cp or anything else would work. > Ordinary people in the past have done this, and ordinary people in the future > will do this. And it will be the same old tech support nightmare of handling > it which will lead to eventually someone implementing a "Do you really want > to do that" kind of fix. Since I routinely have to help people who do this I > expect that it will be enough of an issue for Red Hat eventually to put in > the extra logic again as it is expensive to deal with. Good point. Anything that becomes common and expensive needs a fix when the fix is much cheaper. Chris Murphy
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