On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 03:50:32PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > To get those Vistaesque questions, "alias rm='rm -i'" is surely not > > worth a > > package. It's slightly larger in scope, but only slightly, as > > removing > > files as root means you mess with system directories, right? > > Yes, that's what I mean: what's wrong with making rm -i the default > behaviour? We could do that by simply patching coreutils.
Or we could enforce most system directories to be mounted read-only, and have dpkg remount then rw when it needs write access. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
