On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:55:05PM -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:
In anything from a barebones server to a decked out desktop, what is the harm in preventing yum -y from removing any part of @core???
Come on, provide real reasons why this shouldn't be done.
Well one comparison here is perhaps fsck which has a -y option which means "go do it whatever" but also has a "-a" option meaning "don't ask me unless its something scary or destructive"
And that exists for precisely analogous reasons - you want to let the system get on with the job while you play gam^Wwork hard but don't want it to trash the box if something does go awry