(In reply to Michael Schr�der from comment #8) > I find the idea to remove it "just because someone can shot himself in the > foot" a bit strange. One of the principles of linux is that to give users > enough rope to hang themselfs ;) Not sure you can call it "one of the principles of linux"... it might apply to rpm but I don't think you can/should generalize this principle to all projects out there (fortunately) ;)