[Yum] Stupid User Stories (was:Yum munging systems)

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:05 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:17:17AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > that plugin would count the number of packages in the 'remove' state and
> > > > simply exit if the number exceeds a certain amount or includes certain
> > > > packages, like rpm, or glibc. :)
> > > Is this 'don't eat yourself' plugin going to be enabled by default? I know
> > > it's crack, but it's good crack....
> > it could be, I guess, it doesn't strike me as crack nearly as much as it
> > could be annoying for some subset of folks.
> 
> It seems to fit with the general principle of making yum as safe as
> possible.
> 

agreed - why don't we pick this up on yum-devel.

Though I think a failsafe on removals might-should have a "you're asking
to remove 800 packages are you _SURE_ that's what you wanted" question
in there somewhere.

just to keep the 'yum remove xorg-x11' from nuking someone running yum
from an X terminal.

-sv