On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosowski@nist.gov wrote:
Another point: it shouldn't be hardwired into the package manager but rather result from package properties. I can see several ways to do it:
- an 'essentiality' property in the RPM file
- a yum/dnf configuration file specifying a set of protected packages
- a special, unremovable 'system' package that depends on kernel and dnf
YAGNI? Abstractions are useful only when we actually have a difference to abstract. (Perhaps we will have that difference with Fedora.next, but we don't seem to have it now.) Mirek