Yum and Yumex

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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"

in the fsck world defining 'scary and destructive' is probably easier than 
in pkg mgmt.

Not the least of which is 'updating glibc' scary and destructive? what 
about removing an old kernel?


-sv