That's why dnf (the yum successor) has dns, sudo, systemd, systemd-udev and yum set as protected packages by default on Centos 8 (and you can't remove python wi

That's why dnf (the yum successor) has dns, sudo, systemd, systemd-udev and yum set as protected packages by default on Centos 8 (and you can't remove python withouth removing dnf/yum because of dependencies, so it should stop that as well). I imagine apt has something similar, and maybe it's not (or wasn't) set by default on the dist you're running? If not, I would raise that as a bug with the distro, as breaking it with a command like that should be much harder to do accidentally.