Re: [Tails-dev] Removing packages from Tails for testing sma…

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Autor: intrigeri
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Asunto: Re: [Tails-dev] Removing packages from Tails for testing smaller attack surface
Hi,

Thomas Benjamin wrote (29 Nov 2013 23:14:42 GMT) :
> Is there any particular good procedure for removing packages from
> Tails,


Not really, sorry.

> (and I don't understand why the -f
> parameter is not used so that the build will not fail if that package is
> not included).


It is intentional that the build fails if we're trying to delete
something we didn't install in the first place, so that we notice when
we have obsolete cruft that we should get rid of. Sorry, this is
optimized for maintainability more than for making customization easy.

Cheers,
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