Re: Crazy APT/dpkg suggestion (user-installable packages)
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:39:54AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty 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. This suggestion might be the next
> best thing. Assuming that security issues could be resolved, make apt-get
> and/or dpkg setuid root so that the following could be implemented:
You mean relocatable packages, yes I'd like that. I'll write some
doc about them when I find the time.
(That'd be not only minimising package dependencies, but also
minimising location deps, arch deps, permission deps.)
Gerhard.
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