On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:20:58PM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
OK. I've never heart complaints against -Rd and -Sd; they are the real database and system breakers. But they are optional, nobody said, that you must use any of them. The same for --nonew. And using it is _my_ responsibility, not the package manager's. [Btw, my philosophy: If I'm not allowed to break my system, then my freedom is restricted (or I am treated like a child);-)] This was a FR, and personally I find it also useful. I don't see why this is so dangerous (I mean it worth not to suffice some needs, while there are no regressions to others). [Btw, I think this patch ugly because of patching back-end instead of the front-end, not because of its philosophy]. I don't think, anyone can convince me about the (assumed) fact that this feature is bad, so I let the decision to Dan (as always). Technical discussion are welcome of course.
Well personally, I don't like Rd and Sd :) But you have a valid point, and that's also why I was never 100 % against your patch (even if I maybe made it sound like it :)). If we want to give more power to users, and then its their jobs to not do stupid things with it, then your patch is perfectly fine.