I never worried on Windows about security as much as I should have, it just so happens I've been lucky to have never been hit with ransomware. By the time...

TL;DR - About switching from Linux Mint to Qubes OS from among various other options that try to provide security out-of-the-box (also discussed: OpenBSD, SculptOS, Ghaf, GrapheneOS)

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    Thank you for the suggestion. I am ashamed to confess that a temporary PATH variable had not occurred to me.

    I first ran into these issues creating package templates. Chimera has a beautiful package build system where packages get built in containers and source code gets downloaded into the container and and built against a clean environment. As you point out, creating a package that creates the symlinks as a dependency (along with the GNU utils) could be a viable approach here. Maybe even just in /usr/local. The GNU utils get installed to /usr/bin in Chimera and the container gets recycled for every new package. The distro would never accept such hacky packages but I can use them myself.

    For just generally working in the distro at the command-line, your temporary path idea could work well.

    Thanks again. I appreciate it!