After seeing repeated upgrades of coreutils, and noting that the description
for the other three central *utils packages had been changed to "empty
package for upgrading, remove at will," I told it to purge shellutils and
textutils.[*] And I got
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
shellutils textutils
[...]
You are about to do something potentially harmful
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
I think this is a hilarious choice of confirmation phrases. Good pick,
dpkg authors! You made my day.
(Preventing stupid people from trying "/usr/bin/yes | apt-get ...", perhaps?)
Phil
[*] fileutils is depended on by the kernel source package
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I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002
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