announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:01:09PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > yes that's the idea. In practice however, a user doesn't type 'dnf erase
> > -y kernel' by accident and we don't feel the need to protect users who
> > really know what they are doing from doing so. It's the same situation as
> > 'rm -rf /boot' or 'rpm -e --allmatches kernel'. Of course, people are
> > welcome to write specific plugins to achieve something similar to what Yum
> > used to do.
> >
> 
> 
> Lots of users think they know what they're doing when in fact they don't
> and are just trying things out. While I'm against excessive hand-holding in
> general, removing what might be the only installed kernel is a really bad
> way to teach them a lesson.

Is there any scenario where removing all kernels would make sense?

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Suvayu

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