Re: [Tails-dev] Regarding software change

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list, m.andersen4760
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Regarding software change
Michael Andersen:
> First, very nice job you are doing!


Thanks.

> I do have 2 things that I believe would be wise to change.
>
> First up is the ecryptfs-utils - this is a very solid encryption tool
> that I think would be very handy to ship with your live cd.


Which use cases would be covered by ecryptfs that are not already
covered by either LUKS or GPG integrated in Nautilus as both are already
included in Tails?

> Next up is the video editor. I think it would be wise to change the
> pitivi video editor with the kdenlive instead. I know this would require
> more disk space, but kdenlive has become a very stable a feature rich
> editor. I have tried pitivi, and it has a nasty habit to crash almost
> instantly.


Indeed, kdenlive seems to be more popular than pitivi, and moving a bit
faster in terms of versions:

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=pitivi
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pitivi
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kdenlive
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=kdenlive

Nonetheless, as a consequence of being based on KDE, kdenlive is asking
for *a lot* more dependencies than pitivi to be installed in Tails:
apt-get tells me 3 MB would be freed by remove pitivi, but 169 MB would
be taken up by kdenlive.

It would be interesting to try to substitute pitivi by kdenlive and
build an actual ISO to see the final difference in size. Do you think
you could try to do that?

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/

We should also take into account that it is tricky to replace software,
since people might have got use to them.

Note that in both cases, you can use the Additional software feature of
the persistence to have them automatically installed each time:

https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/configure/#additional_software