Its reasonable to follow industry practices in regards to safety. To
remove a common safety and require humans to be intelligent all of the
time is an excellent way to introduce (more) chaos into the system.
Sounds like an off-list discussion needs to take place.
-Phillip
On 6/21/14 12:26 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
You can't child proof the world.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Naheem Zaffar
<naheemzaf...@gmail.com <mailto:naheemzaf...@gmail.com>> wrote:
While dnf itself might want to stay "pure" and do as commanded, maybe
for fedora there should be a default plugin that adds some protection
for the regular users?
On 21 June 2014 18:02, Gerald B. Cox <gb...@bzb.us
<mailto:gb...@bzb.us>> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tim Lauridsen
<tim.laurid...@gmail.com <mailto:tim.laurid...@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>>
>> many people stops reading fdl, because of all the flaming and
people trash
>> talking each other and that is sad for Fedora :-(
>
>
> Thank you. No one likes trolling.
>
> It should be obvious that if you start removing packages you should
> understand what you are doing. To run DNF, you first have to
have root
> authority - which should be the first red flag. Second, when you
enter a
> command to remove a package and it comes back and lists hundreds of
> dependencies it is also going to remove, that should be enough
of a nudge
> for the prudent person to reply "N".
>
> You can't stop people from being careless by asking them again
if they are
> really, really sure. If they go ahead and destroy their system
and have to
> re-install, maybe that will be a sufficient deterrent to keep
them from
> doing it again. Just like telling a child not to touch a hot
surface...
> some listen and the ones that don't get burned.
>
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