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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2015, 21:29 +0200 schrieb Torsten Sachse:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> > if you ever made your device writable, installed any debs or changed any
> > files that are usually in the readonly space there is no guarantee at
> > all that any update will ever work and you are pretty much on your
> > own ...
> 
> This raises the question about why to include these tools in consumer(!)
> builds in the first place, if everything you can do with them is brick
> your device. Unless of cource they're needed for some system
> functionalities, in which case they are needed in both developer and
> consumer builds.
> 
this will be fixed once the phone switches to snappy (on the way to
convergence) ... in which all traces of deb and apt will be gone ... 

currently apt and deb packages are used to assemble the rootfs ... the
image is readonly and the tools are not functional by default (and we
definitely suggest nowhere to actually make them functional, but if you
really want you can do that)

ciao
	oli

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