On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:03:24AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Many "elementary" packages are not protected, and their removal can break a system in various ways. Adding protections to Yum/DNF config gives a false sense of security.
The original intention was to at least ensure that you couldn't easily and accidentally put your system into a state where you couldn't put it back with the same tools you used to break it. (That is, don't let yum remove things yum needs to install stuff, basically.)
I think there's use in extending it a *little* beyond that, but I also don't think we should go overboard.