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Re: Using apt on a security relevant system (esp: PGP/GPG, scp, perl)



Marc.Haber-lists@gmx.de (Marc Haber) writes:

> I recently learned "by accident" that apt depends on perl. In the
> future, I will be working on a security relevant system, would like
> to use apt for centralized updates but wouldn't want to have perl on
> that system. Thus, I would like to learn how vital perl is for
> apt. As I can see, apt-get is a binary.

Couldn't you make the perl binary executable only by root? 

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