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#22
Originally Posted by Bec View Post
If we're to be concerned about safety, then let's make the easy installation of .debs possible with a commandline or a mini-app like rootsh.
But having more installation files and having to "dpkg" them all really makes no sense to me.
What are you asking for here? You suggest an easy command line tool as a solution, but don't find dpkg acceptable. Is it that you need dependency resolution? That's exactly why we have the repositories and apt-get, and avoid using manually downloaded debs.