True, but it makes you think about what you're doing! I was told once to type in a confirmation message that said 'Yes, I understand this could be dangerous' or something like that. :) mw
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yes, do as I say! 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 -- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
