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Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

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Hello The Wanderer

> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 at 8:48 PM
> From: "The Wanderer" <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?
>
>
> Do you have any reason to believe that it might? As compared to any
> other random library that Debian provides.
>
No, I don't have the technical knowledge to audit libthai. My point is that why pull in non-English dependencies for an English-language installation....Doing so may increase the chance of attacks by hackers.

The argument that an app, library or distro is open source does not really mitigate the risks of attacks.

Consider the below decade-old bugs that had been "hiding" in plain sight:

CVE-2016-5195 (Dirty COW)
CVE-2014-0160 (Heartbleed)
CVE-2016-8655
CVE-2017-6074
CVE-2021-3156 (Baron_Samedit)

Best regards.

Stella

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Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-13 14:20 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-14 11:30 +0100
    Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-02-14 13:50 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-15 19:00 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2022-02-15 20:00 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-02-15 20:30 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-02-16 03:10 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-16 14:40 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-02-16 14:50 +0100
              Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-17 07:10 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-16 15:10 +0100
              Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-16 16:40 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-16 21:40 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 06:50 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-17 10:50 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 11:00 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-17 10:50 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 11:00 +0100
              Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-17 07:10 +0100
                Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-17 09:30 +0100
    Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is  the best course of action? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-02-17 11:10 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What  is the best course of action? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-02-17 18:10 +0100

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