Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner (2015-02-13 11:31:06) > > 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.
Sounds like an excellent use of boxer: https://wiki.debian.org/Boxer Declarative profile not only means much less security risk but also lees derived from Debian - potentially none (a.k.a. a Debian Pure Blend). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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