dnf versus yum

[Reindl Harald]

Am 10.01.2014 20:55, schrieb Matthew Miller:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:41:03AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> 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, so I just
>>> hope that one can't delete their dependencies either (glibc? what
>>> else?).
>> No, you can't. Any operation that results in the removal of a protected
>> package is rejected.
> 
> And, for whatever it may be worth, that was very much part of the original
> design intention -- to protect against carelessly removing things which are
> part of the dep chain for something critical, even though they look like
> they might be harmless to get rid of

anybody who managed to forcibly remove nss-softokn wile try to solve
dependency problems with a hammer and after that find out that nearly
*anything* on the system needs this package knows why

* rpm is dead
* yum is dead
* sshd is dead

in my case i managed it on that time by samba having a hidden root account*
and restore each file manually because boot from live media and chroot did
also no longer work (after chroot the same problems)

after that you understand why things are protected and that you should
hardly avoid try to bypass them until you are 1000% sure what you are
doing and there is no other way

*
yes this is many years ago and these days i would setup a
smb-root acccount only over my dead body

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