On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks(a)nerd.com> wrote:
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Whenever I've had to get rid of extra installed packages I've just
> checked yum.log, but something more automatic might be useful to some.
I tend to concur, but I also think that you can't keep people from doing
stupid things, e.g. "# rm -rf /".
"Once you make something idiot-proof, nature creates better idiots."
True, but we've shown here that, out of the box, Fedora is fairly
close to having *some* idiot-proofness.
One approach would be to:
1. Make yum-protect-packages mandatory in @core
2. include /etc/sysconfig/protected-packages.d/core.list in
yum-protect-packages that contains @core listed.
As simple as that, even Joe Plumber has a protected Fedora install.
For that matter, would not even Joe Linux-guru benefit? If needed, the
latter could always "use the --override-protection command-line
option."
Hmm, too easy. I'm sure I've overlooked something.
jerry
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