useability for dummies

Jeff Johnson n3npq at mac.com
Wed Jun 21 05:33:56 PDT 2006


On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

>
> At the least, 'smart' ought to have an option "keep going, don't
> abort" (usable even by dummies) that would install the remaining
> packages (if downloaded and approved, and with their dependencies
> met) even if some packages in an 'apply' batch had problems.
>

Would you expect "rm -rf /" run as non-root to continue even if "/"  
could not be removed?

Continuing in spite of known installation failures might easily break  
more than "rm -rf /" run as non-root.

73 de Jeff




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