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by jhkaghjkga 3797 days ago
Sane distributions don't include that alias by default. Because otherwise people will always use `rm -f` and lose the feature that `rm` asks before removing files marked as read-only.
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Then quite a few distributions are not sane, as I remember once a upon a time it was quite common to have it like that on fresh install.