On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:55:56AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > I think it would be possible to have a installed package database per > user, and allow packages to be installed in the $HOME of the > users. The system administrator would have statistics about the > softwares installed by the users, and if a package is installed by > many users, he can decided to install it system-wide, and remove it > from the $HOME of the users. The packages will still try to look in /etc for their config files, and so on. This is a vast amount of work that would require patching most packages in the archive. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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