Hi, On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 03:12:51PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > 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 $HOME of the users. > > The packages will still try to look in /etc for their config files, > and so on. This is a vast amount of work that would require patching > most packages in the archive. True. What about source packages only then? If you allow users to configure a package with /home/$USER as $PREFIX before building, and you have a nice mechanism to fetch a source package, build and install as easy as an apt-get, you can perhaps do this without affecting current binary packages. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen emile@e-advies.nl tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl
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