On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 05:12:50AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > 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. > ditto
> Maybe asking "Are you sure you want to do this", but outright refusing > to do something seems quite ridiculous to me. > Of course, knowing that I do such things on occasion, I have aliased 'rm' to 'rm -i', so it will ask unless I pass '-f' along. > Also, what you would do is dpkg-divert /bin/rm, and then > call /bin/rm.coreutils or whatever. > This is only reasonable if it won't break things like 'make uninstall' or other scripts that expect that rm will be well behaved and do what it is told. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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