Re: [Tails-dev] Removing packages from Tails for testing sma…

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Author: Thomas Benjamin
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Removing packages from Tails for testing smaller attack surface
Thanks!


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:11 AM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thomas Benjamin wrote (29 Nov 2013 23:14:42 GMT) :
> > Is there any particular good procedure for removing packages from
> > Tails,
>
> Not really, sorry.
>
> > (and I don't understand why the -f
> > parameter is not used so that the build will not fail if that package is
> > not included).
>
> It is intentional that the build fails if we're trying to delete
> something we didn't install in the first place, so that we notice when
> we have obsolete cruft that we should get rid of. Sorry, this is
> optimized for maintainability more than for making customization easy.
>
> Cheers,
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                                Thomas S. Benjamin