On 2. 4. 2020 7:51, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 10:13 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: >> And I would like to add that sometimes you don't have a choice - if >> someone who is paying you says to use zoom, there is no choice > > You always have a choice. You can live poor and happy! ;-) > >> - but I >> would rather use gentoo than fire up the MS laptop.. > > ...and here's where we disagree. It's better to run risky apps > on a throwaway system than let them damage or crack your primary system. >
Alternatively, you can set up a VM that contains nothing but the bare minimum required to run app X and assign webcam to it, for instance. Having said that, I'd still love the packaging system to install the app as it resolves all the dependencies, etc. Michal
