On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:35:07PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:23, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:32:54PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > > > Is there any good reason why an install of Debian should not ask the > > > user if they want to install libsafe, and give them reasons why they > > > would want to, and possibly not want to (overhead....) > > > > The Debian installer asks that together with all the other packages an > > user might want to install. > > I've been using Debian since 1995 or 96, and back in the olden days > where there were maybe 600 packages, yea, you could say it was possible > for a user to go through every package. In todays day and age of > multiple thousands of packages in debian if a user doesn't know about a > package, they won't install it as it takes too long to go through each > package (the only way I'm able to stay up to date with everything is by > using aptitude's update,flush mechanism and dpkg --get/set-selections) You are right, but then you should get it added to some task or to some other meta package, like harden. The meta-packages are not easy to find either, though. > I think if we dont put it in the installer, putting it in the > documentation as a "What can you do to increase the security of your > debian system" section with pros and cons for the different things, > would be very useful. Agreed. If you think it is good enough I'll add it to harde-environment. If you want that, please file a wishlist bug against that pacakge. Regards, // Ola > shaya > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / opal@debian.org Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | opal@lysator.liu.se 584 36 LINKÖPING | | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
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