Yum and Yumex

[Jerry Amundson]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:55:05PM -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:
>>>
>>> In anything from a barebones server to a decked out desktop, what is
>>> the harm in preventing yum -y from removing any part of @core???
>>>
>>> Come on, provide real reasons why this shouldn't be done.
>>
>> Well one comparison here is perhaps fsck which has a -y option which means
>> "go do it whatever" but also has a "-a" option meaning "don't ask me
>> unless
>> its something scary or destructive"
>
> in the fsck world defining 'scary and destructive' is probably easier than
> in pkg mgmt.
>
> Not the least of which is 'updating glibc' scary and destructive? what about
> removing an old kernel?

I see shed colors.
Again, one real world reason Fedora should not put in this simple
method of system preservation in case of an un-intended "yum -y"...
And please, no more "but we can shoot ourselves in the foot sooo many
other ways" arguments.

jerry

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