Bug#170850: user-installable .debs

["Yury Sulsky" <ysulsky@hotmail.com>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: wishlist

Hi, I think it would be a great addition to the deb package system if some 
packages could be labeled user-installable.

i.e., something analogous to
./configure --prefix=$HOME/Programs
when compiling from source.

This would be useful if, for example, I wanted to install my favorite text 
editor on a machine I don't have root access to. Of course, since 
dependencies in the main package db might disappear at any time, we would 
also need an operation that searches for broken dependencies between the 
user's db and the main db.

Thanks,
Yury

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