Debian security advises not implemented in whonix (discussion/clarification)

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Duplicate of:

(just now added more information there)

As already documented:

You must take into account that removing perl might not be too easy (as a matter of fact it can be quite difficult) in a Debian system since it is used by many system utilities. Also, the perl-base is Priority: required (that about says it all). It’s still doable, but you will not be able to run any perl application in the system; you will also have to fool the package management system to think that the perl-base is installed even if it’s not.

This seems mostly theoretic and not practical.

These include the following utilities in packages with priority required or important:

Some of these are these are not important:

  • of package exim.

Some of these are really essential:

  • /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert of package dpkg.

  • /usr/sbin/dpkg-statoverride of package dpkg.

  • /usr/sbin/adduser of package adduser.

  • /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure of package debconf.

These would have to be re-implemented in another language. In which language? In C? That would probably just lead to more bugs. Lots of effort and tiny gain.

Not realistic at all. I don’t bet but if there was a bet for the things which probably won’t be done in the next 10 years by anyone on the internet then this would be high on my list.

Probably same as:

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