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gslepaktoday at 2:34 AM0 repliesview on HN

The `--build-profile` / `--profile` thing is a good idea, but typically you'd want to just save all of the access that the program does without prompting.

Programs will access many files and directories on startup, and it would be extremely tedious to have to manually approve each one. So you'd auto-approve all and save them to the profile. This is TOFU principles applied to sandboxing. The assumption being that "this first time I run it naked, it's unlikely to do anything malicious, let me enforce that behavior for the future."