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Re: Crazy APT/dpkg suggestion (user-installable packages)



"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> wrote:

> It would be useful to many people if regular users could install Debian 
> packages into their home directories, but this would take an immense 
> amount of effort to make practical.  

Why in their home directories?

> 	4) it does NOT appear in a list of packages that root specifies
> 	   may be installed (/etc/packages.allow)

Complete with md5sum I assume.

And perhaps limit to non SUID packages.

Interesting.



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