On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:50 PM, John Gilmore <g...@toad.com> wrote: >> I think you are missing an important requirement: installation without >> elevated permissions. > > Enhancing deb or rpm to be able to do this would be a win all around.
Yes, it's been in the To Do list for dpkg and rpm for as long as I've been using Linux -- I asked about this for rpms in '98. Sadly, the rate of development around rpm and dpkg is... well... slow... rpm has a leg up, anyway, in that it has (limited? buggy?) support for relocatable rpms. It would be amazing for the overall health of Linux distros if someone took this on and worked on it all the way to getting it done and merged. Packages (and maint scripts) would need to be updated/adapted to support this, and of course it's not appropriate for all packages. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
