Re: libsafe and Debian installation
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 16:44, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> 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
yes, that sounds good. And I think we should have a reference to your
security howto in the installation if its not there already.
shaya
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