On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 07:00:10PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > I think that answers all the points raised, except perhaps to say > that it isn't in the spirit of unix/linux to prevent you (as root) > from trashing the system if you really want to.
Of course. But all I did was pick purge in dselect and then run Remove -- usually dselect won't trash your system on your behalf. I didn't force it to remove something essential -- although apt did. All fixed up now, but I was a bit surprised something so obviously bad remains. If base-files contained the devices, there would be no problem, and why would you ever remove base-files? Hence your devices would never be lost. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
