dnf even allows to uninstall RPM and systemd without warnings

[Phillip T. George]

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.

-Phillip

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