Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:13:02 +0100, Aurélien COUDERC
<coucouf@debian.org> wrote:
>Totally agreed : yes it would be extremely useful to have some snapshotting feature for apt operations, and no we're never going to get there if we wait for every single filesystem on every kernel to implement it. So if this has to start with btrfs then… great news and super cool !
Do we have data about how many of our installation would be eligible
to profit from this new invention? I might think it would be better to
spend time on features that all users benefit from (in the case of
dpkg, it would be for example a big overhaul of the conffile handling
code). But on the other hand, even our dpkg and apt developers are
doing splendid work and are still volunteers, so I think they'd get to
choose what they do with their babies.
If we had Technical Leadership, things would be different, but we
deliberately chose to have not.
Greetings
Marc
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