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Re:Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates by mercurial on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @03:46PM (#8725592)
While I welcome the move to a Nix-like transactional package management system, the notion of "bundle everything in your app" leaves me extremely queasy. How are you going to guarantee that individual application developers update insecure versions of bundled third-party libraries in a timely manner?
Re:Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates by lamby on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:11PM (#8725783)
Indeed. Somewhat related, but here's Debian's list of embedded code copies:

https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/embedd...

Lots of these have colourful/active security histories (esp. poppler, zlib, pcre, libpng...)