Re: Crazy APT/dpkg suggestion (user-installable packages)
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:39:54AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> * Any user can install a package, except when:
> 1) it would Conflict: with a package already installed by root
> or by a different user
> 2) it would make the amount of free space available on any
> partition less than some absolute size and/or percentage,
> specifiable by root in a conf-file
> 3) it appears in a list of packages that root specifies may NOT
> be user-installed (/etc/packages.deny)
> 4) it does NOT appear in a list of packages that root specifies
> may be installed (/etc/packages.allow)
Are you looking for auto-apt?
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