On 10/4/18 10:06 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 11:30:40PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> Yet I still think we should start fixing those problems. > > +1 > >> Yes, there are a billion things that could go wrong in the current >> approach, but if we had *some* safety net, controlled in the >> sources.list file, we could at least restrict what third-party packages >> would do. > > Not just third-party packages: this isolation feature could limit the > damage that could occur from buggy maintainer scripts in Debian's own > scripts too.
And prevent stuff like with the bumblebee uninstall disaster because of an added space, for example: rm -rf /usr /share/foo/bar.conf Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
