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

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:30:58AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > It's probably good to list this stuff explicitly, but actually, I think
> > all you need to protect is the yum package itself, because an attempt to
> > remove glibc, rpm, or python eventually tries to remove yum too.
> Like said, this was just a trivial/mock-up version of the thing. There's a
> whole lot more to protect than just those to keep a system in bootable
> state, which I think would be a reasonable target for such a plugin.

I agree. (Hmmm -- maybe anything in the 'core' group?) Is there an updated
version of something like <http://adrian.gimp.org/rpm-graph/> anywhere
around? I kind of suspect that *anything* which would make the system not
boot would also cause (eventually) yum itself to get pulled into the
set to be removed.


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