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Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories



William wrote:
>
>On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> To get those Vistaesque questions, "alias rm='rm -i'" is surely not
>> worth a
>> package.  It's slightly larger in scope, but only slightly, as
>> removing
>> files as root means you mess with system directories, right? 
>
>Yes, that's what I mean: what's wrong with making rm -i the default
>behaviour? We could do that by simply patching coreutils.

Christ, no. If you want Fedora you know where to find it.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess


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