On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I'd rather we show extra care towards Fedora developers who are still > using Fedora, if there are any. If we make Fedora development overly > complicated compared to working in a completely different environment or > distro, people may migrate (I'd argue that's not good for Fedora). > > On pátek 25. července 2025 20:01:14, středoevropský letní čas Stephen > Gallagher wrote: > > If you are modifying contents of /usr in-place on your running host > > system... you are taking your life in your hands. That's pretty much > > the largest foot-gun you can have. If you aren't debugging in a > > container or a virtual machine, but instead polluting your own primary > > operating environment, you have only yourself to blame when something > > goes horribly wrong. > > Yes, I agree that GNU/Linux power users should rule with with great power > and understand their responsibility. The key is to understand what we are > doing and sometimes take calculated risks (but how, when I don't know what > I'm actually modifying).
But ... you *can* know? If you see that a file is hardlinked to multiple places (i.e. in `ls -l` output), then make a copy instead, if you're not sure if modifying the other copies is what you want. Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
