On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:15:45PM +0000, George R Goffe via users wrote: > problem. I once tried this kind of thing and dnf came back with > 800 > (maybe 1400) packages to remove... including rpm and dnf et. al.... NOT > GOOD. It's good that dnf asks if it's ok to proceed. Whew. Bullet dodged.
I'm not sayin' it's good, but DNF's "protected packagess" feature will protect you in this case. It won't even let you do it if you accidentally say yes to that confirmation prompt (or provide -y). Like this: $ sudo dnf -y remove dnf Error: Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf -- Matthew Miller <[email protected]> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected]
