RE: Yes, do as I say!
True, but it makes you think about what you're doing!
I was told once to type in a confirmation message that said 'Yes, I
understand this could be dangerous' or something like that.
:)
mw
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Edwards [mailto:phil@jaj.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:48 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Yes, do as I say!
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
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