Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Steven Hanley wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:03:15PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > What's next, file a bug against rm, because "it nuked my system"?
> > Lets put an alias for rm to 'rm -i' in /etc/profile.  It's a standard,
> > because I read about it in a book that was on sale in the used book store,
> > it was standing next to the books about wordstar and msdos 3.22.
> 
> on a side note, this really shits me (dists that set this up anywhere (such as
> root on redhat))
> 
> admitteldy it was probably my own fault, but recently a friend was visiting
> who had only ever been exposed to linux through an operating systems class in
> his uni course, in this class they get to sit around and play with a bunch of
> redhat boxes logged in as root. His only experience ever with rm was the
> redhat rm -i
> 
Does Debian not sin also in this respect?  I notice on my home system
(Potato and Woody mixture), I have in root's .bashrc:

# User specific aliases and functions

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'


I'm pretty sure *I* didn't put those aliases in there.  Don't know what
did.