2021-11-18 5:08 UTC+01:00, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com>: > On 18/11/2021 11:39, linux guy wrote: >> "And the "rm" man page also does not warn what would happen if one enters >> "rm -rf /home"." >> >> Sorry, not the same context. Giving an app a directory to use does not >> allow the app to delete data it didn't create. >> > > Quite apparently, it does in this case.
Just because dnf does it, it doesn't mean that it is allowed to do it. In a very technical sense, yes, but then, say, firefox is also allowed to wipe your home directory. dnf should've created a subdirectory of /home and wiped *that*, afterwards. Just as other apps are creating subdirectories of .config and do their thing there. It's not even a question of which directory we're talking about. dnf shouldn't even wipe /tmp _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
