Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306653, revision 2 Title: Default confirmation in zypper should be set to No - openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Luc de Louw (delouw) Description: At the moment when doing zypper remove whatever the default of the confimation is set to YES. This is quite dangerous because dependencies will also be removed. I suggest to set all default confirmation answers to NO to prevent unintended actions when accidentialy pressing the enter key in the wrong terminal or similar Murphy occurences. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306653

Feature changed by: Luc de Louw (delouw) Feature #306653, revision 4 Title: Default confirmation in zypper should be set to No openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Luc de Louw (delouw) Description: At the moment when doing zypper remove whatever the default of the confimation is set to YES. This is quite dangerous because dependencies will also be removed. I suggest to set all default confirmation answers to NO to prevent unintended actions when accidentialy pressing the enter key in the wrong terminal or similar Murphy occurences. Discussion: #1: Ján Kupec (jkupec) (2009-07-09 16:00:11) I strongly disagree on this. Murphy will always strike in various ways, but this change would make working with zypper more annoying. The default 'yes' reply on enter was added to zypper because many people actually requested that it be this easy to _proceed_ with the installation, not to cancel it. Some people even request that in some simple cases zypper should proceed without any confirmation (see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=395754). So i would like to leave it as it is. + #2: Luc de Louw (delouw) (2009-07-12 13:59:59) + with remove it is indeed very dangerous I cannot agree with you, with + install I partially agree with you. Maybe worth to look at yum: the + parameter -y assumes YES to the question to proceed or not. It is just + three key presses more ;-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306653

Feature changed by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Feature #306653, revision 6 Title: Default confirmation in zypper should be set to No - openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation + openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Michael Löffler (michl19) + reject date: 2009-08-11 15:01:33 + reject reason: it looks that this addresse not a real issue and Murphy + is everywhere Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Luc de Louw (delouw) Description: At the moment when doing zypper remove whatever the default of the confimation is set to YES. This is quite dangerous because dependencies will also be removed. I suggest to set all default confirmation answers to NO to prevent unintended actions when accidentialy pressing the enter key in the wrong terminal or similar Murphy occurences. Discussion: #1: Ján Kupec (jkupec) (2009-07-09 16:00:11) I strongly disagree on this. Murphy will always strike in various ways, but this change would make working with zypper more annoying. The default 'yes' reply on enter was added to zypper because many people actually requested that it be this easy to _proceed_ with the installation, not to cancel it. Some people even request that in some simple cases zypper should proceed without any confirmation (see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=395754). So i would like to leave it as it is. #2: Luc de Louw (delouw) (2009-07-12 13:59:59) with remove it is indeed very dangerous I cannot agree with you, with install I partially agree with you. Maybe worth to look at yum: the parameter -y assumes YES to the question to proceed or not. It is just three key presses more ;-) #3: Ján Kupec (jkupec) (2009-07-20 11:26:55) (reply to #2) I see your point with removal, and i partially agree, but still, there is this need to hit the [enter] key to contiue which should prevent most accidents (if you don't have a broken keyboard with a stuck enter key :O). And even if an accident happens, you still can hit ctrl+c twice, and reinstall the unwantedly removed packages; zypper won't let you remove the essential ones like glibc without additional confirmation. As for 'yum -y', zypper has 'zypper -n' (--non-interactive) equivalent to do this. But that's not what most users want. They want to see the proposal (installation summary), and if they like it they want to confirm with a simple [enter] keystroke (and some want zypper to proceed right away in special cases). This is very different from 'yum - y' or 'zypper -n'. I would agree with making this configurable - have zypper.conf option to choose the default answer for the 'Continue?' prompt. But then again, i don't see real need for it. And to the 'just 3 key presses more' argument: people wanted badly to get rid even of one keypress more (when they had to type 'y[enter]')! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306653