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#19
This is unfortunately why Red Pill needs to go... because it's too "easy" to use.

The only people who should be using Red Pill mode.. are people that are intimately familiar with the command line anyway.. because it is very likely you could cause problems with your precious "GUI" in Red Pill mode on your device that you will need to drop to a shell to fix anyway.

This is my understanding. Red Pill should never have been used as a "Oh, just use Red Pill to get that." Much like just telling someone to run and grab something from extras-devel.... because hey, it's harmless in there! Making a GUI for advanced things has always been an iffy development.. because then non-advanced people start clicking things they don't fully understand - and then expect the real advanced users to just "fix it" for them.

I agree with a poster that if someone wants a package, they'll get the package, but I think for most users being required to drop a shell to do something screams at the user "This is probably something I need to be careful with.." more so than a few clicks in a nifty gui and voila - all kinds of apps a user has no need to mess with..
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