Author: sajolida Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Impossible to install some packages on Tails
through plain apt
On 03/09/13 19:30, intrigeri wrote: > Hi,
>
> sajolida@??? wrote (31 Aug 2013 14:21:44 GMT) :
>> So we might want to either:
>
>> - Say this is a problem in general, and instead remove all those
>> packages at the end of the build than setting them a -1
>> pin priority.
>
> OK, and sorry for causing this mess in the first place.
> Well, I guess it was a useful optimization for a while.
I'll do that then. Created ticket #6259.
> And perhaps some day, live-build (or whatever we use by then) will
> support preferences.d, and we can drop these -1 sections into
> a dedicated file that we delete at the end of the build.
>
>> - Review this list of packages on an ad-hoc basis.
>
> I don't get what would be the goal of this review.
We could decide to keep part of that optimization and keep some packages
as -1 if we believe there is no good reason to install them in Tails.
>> I'm ready to propose a branch to implement any of those options.
