intrigeri wrote (07 Aug 2013 13:28:35 GMT) : > [email protected] wrote (07 Aug 2013 12:20:30 GMT) : >> The feature #5968 of our Redmine says:
>> « It might be convenient to have a way to automatically install custom >> Debian packages stored in the persistent volume. » >> Any opinion on this? Is this a desirable feature? How important would it >> be then? > If someone is interested enough to come up with a good implementation > of it, that doesn't look like asking for maintenance problems, then > I guess I'll be happy that Tails allows one to do this. > However, my gut feeling is that this only addresses rare corner cases, > in a way that removes some incitatives to address it in a better way > (e.g. maintaining that stuff in Debian, in the general case). Also, > this helps creating custom Tails systems that we'll have a hard time > providing good support for, since we can't reproduce things without > the private packages added by the user. I'm not entirely comfortable > with the whole thing. > To sum up, IMHO this is a very low priority thing, with an extra > "excellent patches are welcome" note on it. I'm insisting on the > *excellent* part, because to be honest, even spending much time > reviewing a preliminary patch would feel like wasting my time, while > we have plenty of more important issues to address. Did we reach a consensus, or? Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
