The vision for the Fedora Workstation

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 22:37 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:31:11 -0500
> Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Someone with a custom system who decides to remove a
> > mandatory package would then be removing this release metapackage at
> > the same time
> 
> rpm -e --nodeps ?
> metapackage srpm --remove pkg x from requires.
> It's not watertight.
> 
> There's  probably admins out there are running,
> Apples and Oranges on a Pear box.

It's not really meant to be a security measure. We're not entrenched
against our users, here. I don't see any sane way you could make it
'enforcable' without breaking out the DRM or something. :P
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Adam Williamson
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