On 10/31/07 22:54, Ken Irving wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:31:45PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:52:36PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:18:45PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>>> If all you want to do is put the mutt stuff in /usr/local, why not just >>>> unpack the deb and place it manually? (or are search paths for libs >>>> coded in the binary, I don't know)? >>> This (or similar) kind of thing has been discussed before on the list, >>> and ISTR that the debian packaging is pretty well hard-coded to non-local >>> (i.e., the standard) target directories. It'd be nice to be able to >>> apt{whatever} install to local trees, but there's just no support in >>> the underlying system for this. I can't recall just why I ever wanted >>> this feature, but would be interested if unpacking the deb and manually >>> placing was a viable approach. >> In a similar vein, I've wondered about regular users installing >> packages when they aren't (or can't get) root. ITSM it might be nice >> to be able to install in $HOME/blah as a fallback when installing as >> non-root. BUt then there are potentially big security holes, >> duplication of binaries, etc associated with that. But still, on >> occaision, I see no problem with users apt-getting some mail client or >> other user oriented package into their local tree. They can already >> build from source to do this, so why not a .deb? > > My impression is that there's no particular reasons that it can't be done, > but it just hasn't been done. There are probably wish list requests to > this effect filed away somewhere on this, or so I dimly recall. My guess > is that what it needs is a suitably motivated person to actually make > it happen.
If $(HOME)/bin were first in your $PATH, then a malicious user or app that has write access to your account, then they could put sabotaged versions of common apps into $(HOME)/bin and do all sorts of nasty things to you. But then, I just noticed that somehow $(HOME)/bin is the first entry in *my* $PATH!!! Must find out how that happened... -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]