What's the logic behind many similar templates?

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tetra...@danwin1210.me

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Nov 30, 2019, 1:16:56 AM11/30/19
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By default Qubes comes with two templates for AppVMs: a Debian template
and a Fedora one.

But many people seem to clone templates, so they also have an e.g
"fedora-minimal" template or a "-multimedia" one or any number of other
variations.

Why not just have "one template to rule them all" for each distribution
(Fedora and Debian)?

hut7no

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Nov 30, 2019, 2:18:26 AM11/30/19
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tetrahedra via qubes-users:
Smaller attack surface/faster. If you want to do this you might want a
squid caching proxy to pass updates from a VM, through the proxy, to
your previous update VM.
https://github.com/rustybird/qubes-updates-cache
You can have less network usage, it seems to work well.
Read the security considerations, and the code if you are really serious.
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