I had an idea for a feature that I think would make Lil' Debi a lot more useful for things like that. Now I'm looking for feedback on how useful it would be, and anything else people might think of.
Basically, Lil' Debi should support "installation profiles" On the install screen, there would be a menu of profiles to choose from. Some profiles could be "basic webserver", "wireshark", "minimal SSH", etc. etc. The user would just choose one of those profiles, and then Lil' Debi would make that setup. I think this could be implemented as a folder like /data/data/info.guardianproject.lildebi/app_profiles, and each profile would be an sh script with a little metadata in it, like name and description. The menu would be automatically built from whatever script are in that folder, so people could easily write and test their own profile scripts, just by copying them to that folder. Or maybe this profile would be even simpler, it is just a list of packages to install. Then there would be much less security risk, and we could make it really easy for people to swap these profiles with each other, and have them installed into Lil' Debi. .hc -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x9F0FE587374BBE81 _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
