Re: Crazy APT/dpkg suggestion (user-installable packages)
Jeroen Dekkers@lists.debian-devel@Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:29:24 +0100:
> Then all changes will be written back to the user's home directory,
> including package installation. I haven't thought about the
> implementation in details yet.
>
You know, IIRC Linux had something like this as well. It was called
'Inheriting File System', it allowed you to 'write' to a live CD image. For
some reason, it does not exist anymore.
I never tried it, so I don't know how it worked. Maybe it's just a disk full
of symlinks, that would make it a bit less impressive..
Btw: How are you going to implement two users having one and the same
package installed? Two copies of one program? Would be a waste. And, if the
users share the package, they shouldn't be allowed to write to the binaries
anymore, of course. This'll need a lot of thinking first.
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