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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.<br>
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-Phillip<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/21/14 12:26 PM, Gerald B. Cox
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">You can't child proof the world.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:19 AM,
Naheem Zaffar <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">While dnf
itself might want to stay "pure" and do as commanded, maybe<br>
for fedora there should be a default plugin that adds some
protection<br>
for the regular users?<br>
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On 21 June 2014 18:02, Gerald B. Cox <<a
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> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tim Lauridsen <<a
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href="mailto:tim.lauridsen@gmail.com">tim.lauridsen@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> many people stops reading fdl, because of all
the flaming and people trash<br>
>> talking each other and that is sad for Fedora
:-(<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thank you. No one likes trolling.<br>
><br>
> It should be obvious that if you start removing
packages you should<br>
> understand what you are doing. To run DNF, you
first have to have root<br>
> authority - which should be the first red flag.
Second, when you enter a<br>
> command to remove a package and it comes back and
lists hundreds of<br>
> dependencies it is also going to remove, that
should be enough of a nudge<br>
> for the prudent person to reply "N".<br>
><br>
> You can't stop people from being careless by asking
them again if they are<br>
> really, really sure. If they go ahead and destroy
their system and have to<br>
> re-install, maybe that will be a sufficient
deterrent to keep them from<br>
> doing it again. Just like telling a child not to
touch a hot surface...<br>
> some listen and the ones that don't get burned.<br>
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