On 19/04/15 20:25, Richard Jasmin wrote: > I believe this dev is in ERROR.It is insufficient to just say root has > ultimate access. > System should have that access, not root. Root should never be able to do > this, its too easy to take down a system with rm. Package components can > still be removed, despite the non-ability to remove the package as a > whole.Package components should use +i or equivalent. Im sorry if the dev > doesnt agree.
Other than protect inadvertent removal as the --preserve-root option does, there is nothing more I see that coreutils can or should do here. Perhaps on a system/distro configuration basis you might want to auto set -I for rm invocations by the root user, or otherwise protect important files with chattr +i, or other protections. thanks, Pádraig.
