michael schuster wrote:
Robert Milkowski wrote:
michael schuster wrote:
Robert Milkowski wrote:
People won't use --nodeps by default only under some situations
when it is required.
I think this may actually turn out to be wrong in some cases: once
people get used to using --nodeps (maybe during a spell of
inconsistency in a repo, which needs to be fixed, not worked
around), they'll put it in an alias or wrapper script and forget
about it.
I haven't observed such behavior on Linux system where --nodeps is
available for many years.
Have you?
not specifically, but I've seen people type "rm -rf" out of habit. I
think it's (almost) analogous.
Michael
No, it's not. Most sysadmins don't even know about --nodeps on Linux as
it is rather rare to need it.
Unless you expect --nodeps to be required on OS because too many
packages being broken too often so people would use it by-default I
wouldn't worry about it.
Then again, the moment you let sysadmin in there are many ways he/she
can harm a system and there's not much you can do about it except for
making administration easy for them. By not providing --nodeps you are
making it hard for them in some cases so each of them will come up with
some workaround making the situation only worse.
--
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspto.com
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