Yes, do as I say!

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

After seeing repeated upgrades of coreutils, and noting that the description
for the other three central *utils packages had been changed to "empty
package for upgrading, remove at will," I told it to purge shellutils and
textutils.[*]  And I got

    WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
    This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
      shellutils textutils
[...]
    You are about to do something potentially harmful
    To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

I think this is a hilarious choice of confirmation phrases.  Good pick,
dpkg authors!  You made my day.

(Preventing stupid people from trying "/usr/bin/yes | apt-get ...", perhaps?)


Phil
[*]  fileutils is depended on by the kernel source package

-- 
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
                                                 - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002