Re: [qubes-users] Barebones templates (stripping down minimal templates)

2020-08-04 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 06:15:12 UTC+8, awokd wrote: > > > Tried it a number of years ago. Building a Debian template with > -no-install-recommends (something like that) initially resulted in fewer > packages, but installing required qubes packages pulled many of them > back in. That way y

Re: [qubes-users] Barebones templates (stripping down minimal templates)

2020-08-04 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
fiftyfourthparal...@gmail.com: >- How much more can one strip from minimal templates while allowing them >to start and retain basic Qubes functions? >- Are the current minimal templates really the absolute minimum? >- Are there diminishing returns to increases in security by red

[qubes-users] Barebones templates (stripping down minimal templates)

2020-07-30 Thread fiftyfourthparallel
Hi all, I was fiddling with minimal templates and found them much less complicated than I feared. For example, converting a debian-10-minimal to a sys-net-minimal only involved installing two packages, attaching the pci, and fiddling with some preferences and services. Because of this, I'm tem