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List:       qubes-users
Subject:    Re: [qubes-users] What's the logic behind many similar templates?
From:       "'hut7no' via qubes-users" <qubes-users () googlegroups ! com>
Date:       2019-11-30 7:17:47
Message-ID: 44525d96-e13a-a0c5-db9f-627213d06ab4 () tt3j2x4k5ycaa5zt ! onion
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tetrahedra via qubes-users:
> 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)?
> 

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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