On 8/2/23 23:13, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
I understand your two points about 1). not giving people too much root privileges and 2). not allowing them to use the zypper command without reason, but I can't understand your opinion about python.
I don't see any serious system dependencies in Tumbleweed that you are complaining about.
Well, this was on Leap 15.4. He tried to add an updated python, but couldn't get it to work correctly. He said he was following instructions he found on-line. When it didn't work, he tried removing one of the python versions, I don't know which one. But this had lots of dependencies that caused the removal of lots of core operating system stuff. For example, KDE crashed. The computer was up enough that we were able to add back all the packages that he inadvertently removed with zypper. This guy means well, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is when it comes to Linux maintenance. A couple of months ago he managed to inadvertently remove the partition table from his main disk that contained months of his work. I manged to find the orphaned filesystem (XFS) and created a new partition table to save his bacon. Regards, Lew