Re: Debian Installation experience

[Dima <dima@eris.dev.null>]

>>Brandon Mitchell wrote:
...
 >So you don't want your users (that is if you have any) to run perl 
 >scripts?  Well why didn't you say so: "chmod go-x /usr/bin/perl".  This 
 >won't break dpkg, and since the system is down during upgrades (on a 
 >different kernel), there's no race condition.  Or am I missing something?

You can also install perl, dpkg and whatever on a partition that isn't
even mounted during normal operation.  Or you could pick a right tool
for the job in the first place -- if UNIX protection model's too weak 
for your purposes, why use UNIX? I'm sure there are a few OS'es around 
that use decent protection schemes.   (There's also a possibility of
rewriting dpkg and everything else in Ada, of course.)

--
Dimitri


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