On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:52:47 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:45:35PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> >> For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is >> >> instructed to remove non official versions of the packages in favor >> >> of the ones available in Debian repositories. >> > >> > Right! As its name says. :) Consider the command "rm" in the same >> > vein. >> >> Sure. I neither let "rm" to do things blindly :-) > > The *default action* for rm is "to do things blindly", *unless* you set > the alias to "rm -i".
That's why you should be very careful when issuing that command when you're root... and the same goes for anything that requires root priviledges, such as removing packages. > Are you suggesting ppa-purge should ask: "Are you sure you want to ...?" > by default? Nope, I'm not suggesting anything. I'm just exposing the reasons why I don't like to automate packaging related tasks and why I'm not going to use a tool like that. I take my system's health very seriously. > Consider: > http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/38188 Yep, I prefer to "mv" things or use Midnight Commander for day to day tasks to avoid "fat finger" errors. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jjnsa3$7rc$1...@dough.gmane.org
