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

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> cum veritate scripsit:

Hi,

> I am not a Debian developer, but I came up with the following idea for the 
> packaging system last night.  I just wanted to throw this out to the list 
> and see what people thought about it.

I've had the same kind of thought.
Note that it is already possible to achieve a similar kind
of thing with "dpkg --extract "ing packages under $HOME.

Also, using different root for "dpkg -i" succeeds up to the
point where dpkg tries to chroot to run the maintainer script.

So, if there was a "fakechroot" command, which allowed a 
user to chroot, it would be possible, with least pain.


# I have been bubbling about the idea of 
# fakechroot for a while, and playing with some code...

regards,
	junichi


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