On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:32:04AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 27 février 2012 à 05:19 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein a écrit : > > Am Donnerstag, den 23.02.2012, 18:46 +0200 schrieb Timo Juhani > > Lindfors: > > > Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > > (We even have a patch to allow only a subset of packages but it is > > > > unfortunately a bit too hackish.) > > > > > > Would be really nice to have some standard sets available (think > > > "browser extensions", "command-line tools that ship no services or suid > > > binaries"). I'd certainly let my desktop users install these without > > > having to ask me or having to install them manually to their $HOME.. > > > > Do you need a whitelist or a blacklist? > > This should clearly be a whitelist. I don’t think there’s real use for a > blacklist, it is too dangerous.
Wouldn't both be best? Let's say the whitelist contains all packages of a certain category. The blacklist could then be used to make an exception for a specific package within that category. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <t...@debian.org> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120304003944.gd17...@suiko.acc.umu.se
