Forcing intentional deb package dependency resolution

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri Dec 29 12:39:20 UTC 2023


Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users writes:

> The need for self-responsible manual intervention distinguishes Linux
> from very popular commercial operating systems.
>
> I think your intention to make decisions for the user is fundamentally
> wrong.

I am not making any decisions for the user.

Quite the opposite.

The user has a wide choice of discretion to make far-ranging decisions.  
Including the ones that will thoroughly mess things up and result in a  
mostly unbootable brick.

I'm just putting in a failsafe to keep the user from making a big mistake.





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