Re: Bug#32888: apt removes base without asking too much
Hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Enrique Zanardi, Stardate 050399.1921:
> _any_ essential package, and apt will happily default to "Y" for the
> critical question "You are going to remove essential packages. This may
> totally hose the system. Are you sure you want to do this?" (I'm not sure
> about the exact wording, but it's something like that) and happily
exact enough that I remembered it ... :)
> necessary to replace an essential package (IIRC, two times in three years
> and five releases. Is not that often, don't you think so?). If we want
> apt to remove essential packages (and I'm not sure that's a wise move),
> at least the _default_ answer should be No. The user will have to read
> the question and enter "Yes<ENTER>" only after reading that his system
> may be trashed by that simple action.
yes, apt should ask back, but just as a note.
installing console-tools resulsts in just tha question as it conflicts with
kbd which is an essential package.
So it can be a quite normal and perfactly sane thing to remove an esential
package, but then again, you do this only once and then you have console-tools
...
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