Re: [Tails-dev] [Feature #5968] additional software: install…

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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] [Feature #5968] additional software: install arbitrary deb
intrigeri wrote (07 Aug 2013 13:28:35 GMT) :
> sajolida@??? wrote (07 Aug 2013 12:20:30 GMT) :
>> The feature #5968 of our Redmine says:


>> « It might be convenient to have a way to automatically install custom
>> Debian packages stored in the persistent volume. »


>> Any opinion on this? Is this a desirable feature? How important would it
>> be then?


> If someone is interested enough to come up with a good implementation
> of it, that doesn't look like asking for maintenance problems, then
> I guess I'll be happy that Tails allows one to do this.


> However, my gut feeling is that this only addresses rare corner cases,
> in a way that removes some incitatives to address it in a better way
> (e.g. maintaining that stuff in Debian, in the general case). Also,
> this helps creating custom Tails systems that we'll have a hard time
> providing good support for, since we can't reproduce things without
> the private packages added by the user. I'm not entirely comfortable
> with the whole thing.


> To sum up, IMHO this is a very low priority thing, with an extra
> "excellent patches are welcome" note on it. I'm insisting on the
> *excellent* part, because to be honest, even spending much time
> reviewing a preliminary patch would feel like wasting my time, while
> we have plenty of more important issues to address.


Did we reach a consensus, or?

Cheers,
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