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

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 02 January 2014, Ales Kozumplik sent:
> 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'. 

I tend to agree, though it's a hazardous possibility, and the sort of
thing that's usually covered by an alias, or required option, to the
command.

While I might well install/upgrade a non-specific kernel.  If I were
going to remove a kernel, I'd be specifying which particular one.  And
those doing something just like "yum update", with no further parameters
(perhaps, other than the less-than-clever "-y"), the installing of the
latest kernel and removal of the oldest one, ought to be automatically
handled the way it always has done (by the update routine).

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

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