On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Andrew Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> The `attr` package is not installed in Whonix, Ubuntu or Debian by
> default, so we will have to include this in our templates for this to
> function seamlessly.

Not necessarily. You could simply use a lower-level interface
[1][2][3][4] to the same thing that command accesses. Doing so would
likely be preferable anyway, as there is a preference in the Qubes
codebase for implementing things in python instead of shell scripts
for portability reasons [5].

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xattr
[2]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/attr.5.html
[3]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getxattr.2.html
[4]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/listxattr.2.html
[5]: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/coding-style/#bash-specific-guidelines

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