-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 03:00:08PM +0100, Tom Zander wrote: > On Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:06:53 CET Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > fedora-26, as default template for AppVMs, contains default user > > applications, like Firefox, Thunderbird. Shipping a _desktop_ operating > > system without web browser isn't going to work... > > I understand the argument, and I see you make a lot of sense. > > On the other hand there are a lot of little practical issues with this. > For instance; firefox has a 2-monthly releas cycle > https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar > which makes any release from Qubes (on DVD) outdated really fast. > > I would guess people would suggest new qubes users would need to always keep > up-to-date, by downloading the latest from the internet. > > So in reality you end up shipping a firefox and various other large packages > which will be deleted hours after being installed because they are outdated > and possibly a security risk.
Actually, Fedora support differential updates (*.drpm, being a binary diff of packages). So it isn't that much waste of space... Also, launching an update (simple action, available from GUI) is easier than finding what packages you need to install and where. > For 4.1 it would be nice to have a better process in place, like I described > earlier in this thread. So we can avoid shipping something on valuable DVD > space that the user will never actually use. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhrpukzGPukRmQqkK24/THMrX1ywFAlpjgN0ACgkQ24/THMrX 1yx9Jgf/fAEHr9q47cM671y0921mm0msfeVAXeRm+8VfMEeRNWxDT8+pMplJ11Io jpHvnq4UChdJwOKvOb2m9xrsDXXVXfImDACuXRETmezlG892xqF1Qv51zW2XwcVO FAByR5CbKg4RNU51t8EknrIm+rA3laadDZ8/UkxRw6f/e3oDErI/7lHqPo5jv4sD Ub5z4d7wlFPHOguVDEhv/ySyiodq5CNSpX6tC9037BIqiYdJk4V46Y8FfYjS1HqN frwQqpUrGlZVEgOhZ66KA9uVrQYzr/dzidIvJRjR3FdEyyClPyPNwwNj44YBpumX OHJ9n0/WlKBrqMe1w1288pgNtHlh0A== =LYcV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/20180120174813.GT2653%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
