Re: Yum and Yumex

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:53:11AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> However, if the user runs yum with a -y they have excplicitly offered 
> confirmation.
> 
> What more can we do?
> 
> Make a --really-force like mkraid has?

I think that only makes sense if there are cases where "-y" is usually sensible
and something obviously dire is going on. Otherwise this just continues until
you get to tools like scsifmt which asks simple maths questions to be sure you
are awake 8)

> Hell, we even offer a yum plugin which keeps transactions removing certain 
> pkgs or transactions of a certain size from running at all.

My beef is with the analogy not the tool