Bug#838734: [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls packages during upgrades without asking for confirmation
2016-09-24 18:36 GMT+02:00 Ximo Baldó <espindarga@gmail.com>:
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> No. Precisely, the bug I'm reporting is that the package manager, plasma-discover, does not warn user about his intention to do that removing operation. So, the user never has notice about these changes and as far I know this situation can be considered as grave bug as it can lead to an unusable system.
Discover is meant for users who have no idea what a "package" is, so
prompting them with questions they don't understand will highly likely
not happen (they would just klick "yes" anyway). I wonder though if we
could add some safeguard, like "ask for re-confirmation if more than
50 packages are going to be removed".
In any case, this is not a grave bug since it only ever happens on
development suites, which no end-user sees. It's normal/important at
max.
I'll ping the Discover upstream and maybe designers to see if
something can be done here.
Cheers,
Matthias
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