Reindl Harald writes: > Am 23.06.2014 19:36, schrieb Chris Adams: >> Once upon a time, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> said: >>> without that protection any "what is that, i don't need it" >>> and try to remove it brings the danger to ruin the setup >> >> And the protection is already there - the list of dependent packages >> that will be removed, followed by a confirmation request that you really >> want to do that > > expeting that every user knows every package and can make > taht decision for sure is naive
„If you don't know what the package is for - don't remove it”. If I type „dnf remove <foo>” and I see only „foo” is going to be removed, most probably I'm fine. However, if the tool lists 100 packages to be removed as dependencies, most probably I should answer *N*. Seriously. A user can do „su” and then remove random files in /bin directory. Including yum, dnf, rpm and bash. Do we want to also disallow that? > > guess why - because until now i could trust the operating > systems not let me uninstall important ones I would never „trust” OS here. If you want to have a list of not-allowed-to-be-removed packages, it is maintained by human. The human can be wrong. That's why you *always* read the list of packages to be removed. And there's no such a thing like „important” package. Maybe I'm using my own kernels and I really want to remove all Fedora kernels? I don't want to do any weird hacks to be allowed to do this. „dnf remove kernel” followed by *Y* is perfectly OK. I've seen enterprise appliances running RHEL, where vendor removes most of the tools considered as non-needed *including* RPM. -- jaroslav
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