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Re: a two cent suggestion



On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote:

> Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any
> package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or
> explicitly acquiring privilege of) user.

The general idea of a safe way to allow users to manage system-wide
apt packages has come up before, here is another writeup about it:

https://wiki.debian.org/UntrustedDebs

The goal of allowing all users to manage installed software seems like
something better served by app sandboxing technologies like Flatpak.
It is probably possible to convert .deb packages to Flatpak packages.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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