This brings me to an idea: how can we create a text (sort of license text, mandatory to be displayed at installation, like for java or acrobat), that could warn about such issues?
I believe we used to have this functionality in the old packagemanager. We can misuse license if really needed.
We still have this functionality in our package manager (sort of, not sure if we're talking about the same). It's called install notify message and it is a property of a package. Package manager displays it in a small pop-up window if user selects the package for installation. For example, if you choose to install kernel-default, you will see: "Install this kernel only if you know exactly what you are doing. YaST installs the correct kernel for your system automatically." There are, of course, some limitations. These messages pop up only if you select package manually, so if a) solver selects it for your or b) you're updating the package, you'll see nothing (well, as for b) it used to work that way in ncurses, but I changed it for the sake of consistency, see: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=308410) B. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter