On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM Karl Denninger <k...@denninger.net> wrote:
> On 8/8/2025 10:48 AM, Daniel Morante wrote: > > I'm from the group of people that believes if you ask a computer to do > something, no matter what that thing is (even if it's destructive and > dangerous) the computer should do it. There is nothing that I hate more > than someone else deciding what I can and can not do with my computer. > FreeBSD is one of the few remaining operating systems that retains this > freedom. > > The problem isn't the action of deleting all your base packages. The > problem is the fact that this was designed in such a way where we are > having this conversation. > > IMO these two paragraphs contradict each other. You (or someone) asked it to delete everything forcibly without confirmation, it did so. That it removed more than they expected… okay, was a surprise, but it's also a risk of asking it to do something dangerous. Checking first isn't a POLA, it's something you should expect to do when doing something dangerous like `rm -rf` or `pkg delete -af`. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
