[Bradford] Linux Help Please!

Nick Rhodes nick at ngrhodes.co.uk
Mon Jan 6 14:07:45 UTC 2014


 Debian at-least gives you a "Yes do as I say" confirmation for
removing key packages.

On 6 January 2014 13:22, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 11:53 +0000, David Spencer wrote:
>> And reduce the number of such key packages... and distinguish better
>> between install, upgrade and remove use cases... and make it easier to
>> rollback changes... and mitigate the consequences of removal... and
>> have the tools fall back gracefully if components or package state
>> data are unavailable... and... and...
>>
> Perhaps it would be worth having a session at the next meeting on the
> options. openSUSE appears to have two separate options - command line
> and GUI - so that if one goes down the other is available.
>
> On one occasion (the only one in over eight years of using SUSE and
> openSUSE) when someone borked an update to a package, they simply
> published a command line sequence to restore the missing functionality.
>
> John
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