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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/09/2014 07:23 PM, Reindl Harald
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Am 09.01.2014 22:16, schrieb Przemek Klosowski:
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<pre wrap="">By the way, currently the protected list seems to be 'yum, systemd and running kernel'.
I don't have a system to try it on
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what about the machine you sitting in front of?
without -y flag yum asks if you mean your input serious</pre>
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OK, I just wasn't not man enough to try it :). I was planning to set
up a test machine to check it but didn't have time yet. <br>
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<pre wrap="">so I just hope that one can't delete their dependencies either (glibc? what else?)
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if you think one second about dependencies are solved you know what happens</pre>
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Obviously, glibc is a dependence of pretty much everything---my
point was that there are many other implicit and explicit
dependencies. For instance, the entire /boot/grub2/i386-pc
directory, which is not owned by any package but originates from
grub.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I think you can still brick the system with careless yum erases: for instance, deleting grub
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how would this delete the bootloader in the MBR?
you do not need the grub-package installed to have a bootloader</pre>
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MBR is just first stage loader---not enough to bring up the system,
necessarily. This is tricky: the second stage is owned by grub2 in
/usr/lib/grub, and somehow transferred to /boot/grub2 but I am not
sure how---the files in /boot/grub2/i386-pc are not owned by any
package, so I think you're right that removing grub would not
disable the system. Again, I am not man enough to try it on my work
desktop.<br>
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