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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon mehulkar

Add Steam for Linux deleting everything

Open shrayasr opened this issue 10 years ago • 8 comments

Nothing says it better than this:

shrayasr avatar Jan 16 '15 05:01 shrayasr

:+1:

slafs avatar Jan 16 '15 12:01 slafs

+1 Definitely an epic fail. Steam runs rm -rf /* when the default install location is not found under least Linux.

Bengt avatar Jan 16 '15 17:01 Bengt

:+1: relevant: #3

jomo avatar Jan 18 '15 14:01 jomo

I'd wait for the issue to be resolved and a part of history to make it part of a hall of fame.

mehulkar avatar Jan 18 '15 21:01 mehulkar

In other news, I didn't know what Steam was until now. Thanks for the PR! :smile:

mehulkar avatar Jan 18 '15 21:01 mehulkar

I'd wait for the issue to be resolved and a part of history to make it part of a hall of fame.

Sure :)

In other news, I didn't know what Steam was until now. Thanks for the PR!

WOW. You should check the company out - Valve. They are a game company and they do some awesome work. This IMO is one of those "we're humans after all" kind of mistake. I feel that people are criticising them too much for it.

shrayasr avatar Jan 19 '15 05:01 shrayasr

This IMO is one of those "we're humans after all" kind of mistake.

sold. Maybe the title of the entry should reflect this angle! :smile:

mehulkar avatar Jan 19 '15 06:01 mehulkar

Whoever wrote the steam.sh shell script actually was aware of what he did. There is a comment # Scary! in the line before the error prone rm -rf. It was decided to be safe enough to leave it as it was, but when you deploy software on that scale, someone will do weird stuff you didn't think of and trigger bugs. So yes, humanly understandable but hilariously scary nonetheless.

Bengt avatar Jan 20 '15 22:01 Bengt