On Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 4:00:55 AM UTC-4, awokd wrote: > On Thu, April 19, 2018 5:45 am, Jan Hustak wrote: > > > > > I guess there's a cognitive aspect to it as well, not related to > > security as such. I have over 2300 packages installed on my main Debian > > notebook, many of them not needed anymore. Cleaning them out is a tedious > > job I never get to. If I had a VM/filesystem with "only packages needed > > for Project X", things would be more orderly. I don't need Qubes OS for > > that, of course, but it's an issue I seek to address in addition to > > security. Sorry if I'm straying off topic. > > It's not off topic. I've said before I'd keep using Qubes even if it > provided no additional security over any other Linux distributions (but it > does a lot) merely for the convenience/flexibility it provides! In your > case then, you might want a workflow something like: > > 1- Clone one of the stock templates to create a base template with common > packages > 2- Clone as needed for project X, install specific packages > 3- Make Project X AppVM based on the new template > 4- Delete project specific VMs when done > > If you can figure out a union of common packages (hopefully less than > 2300!) then you could skip step #2 some of the time and base #3 on #1.
ya don't hvm is not needed less secure. or if making a standalone hvm no reason to use template. Unless using a special os I also believe there already is a one called debian-minimal or something like that somewhere in community repos. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/34dad230-3dda-4193-be73-570291c590a6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
