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for better or worse, they are on the read-only partition, meaning removing them would change the checksum and result in the system partition failing signature v
by sprayk 7y ago
for better or worse, they are on the read-only partition, meaning removing them would change the checksum and result in the system partition failing signature validation at boot. Disabling is the best we will get as long as this practice continues.
- saagarjha 7y agoI can see this working if checksums are calculated per-item instead of as a group.
- londons_explore 7y agoThey are calculated both ways.
- asveikau 7y agoBut if an OEM does this to a lot of apps, that adds up and it's a lot of disk space the customer paid for, purchased, and cannot use. I apologize for being blunt, but yours seems like a very lame technical excuse to justify existing behavior, at cost to customer experience. They could just as well put it somewhere where it's (1) still signed and (2) doesn't affect the signature of the base OS.
- iggldiggl 7y agoAnd even ignoring any potential checksum issues, uninstalling that kind of apps consequently only frees up space on the system partition, where it is of little value to the average user.