Re: Crazy APT/dpkg suggestion (user-installable packages)
On 06 Feb 2002 15:06:23 +0100
Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org> wrote:
> Il mer, 2002-02-06 alle 14:39, Kevin B. McCarty ha scritto:
> the user prepares a nice package with a well-chosen name and put inside
> a suid shell and install it. wow! root shell gained without any effort!
> nice idea... :(
yes... that would suck, but one should not depend on root powers to
install something into $HOME, you see... if I want to install, say,
sylpheed on my $HOME, what will I need root for? unpack the deb?
no. create directories? no. I can see the problem for apache, fetchmail
(creates a user)... but many packages would be handled very well
[]s!
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Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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