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You can’t do this on Linux anymore either. Unless you are on a way out of date system, you need to add the --no-preserce-root flag as well. And I think it still prompts you to make sure it is really want you want to do.

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WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!

You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase ‘Yes, do as I say!’

User: gleefully types in the phrase

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Knowing some of the people I have to support on a daily basis, yeah I don’t see this stopping some people lol

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It certainly didn’t stop Other Linus!

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But here it’s deleting /* and not / so I think it won’t prompt you for that flag, but I’m not about to try it

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