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Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories



Hi,

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 22:16 +1300, Francois Marier wrote:
> Basically, the wrapper (see attached file) has a blacklist which
> contains
> directories like /usr/lib, /home, /etc and removes those before
> passing its
> arguments to the real 'rm' command.

While I'm sorry for you having to reinstall your system, I think that
having such a wrapper as a default feature in Debian is absolutely
ludicrous and should be avoided at all costs.

Maybe asking "Are you sure you want to do this", but outright refusing
to do something seems quite ridiculous to me.

Also, what you would do is dpkg-divert /bin/rm, and then
call /bin/rm.coreutils or whatever.

William

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