On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:00:28PM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 01:23 PM, Jerry Talkington wrote: > > >Is there any way to install fink without superuser privileges? It > >doesn't make any sense to me that you would need to be root to install > >non-system packages. > > There's already an item on the patch-tracker for this: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/ > index.php?func=detail&aid=576203&group_id=17203&atid=317203
Sweet. I've updated the patch for 0.5.2 and package manager 0.13.2, but I can't seem to attach them to the tracker. > > If you need this feature, you could work on updating this patch--it's > now a bit old. Also, you could help figure out how we should handle > packages that need root privileges, like passwd (adding users), passwd and similar packages should have system-<package> equivalents (like system-xfree86), since the user may not need to install them (I have them already installed from my stable fink tree, but people could have already have them installed from a NetInfo root, NIS, LDAP, etc.). > daemonic (running daemons), There could be a dummy package that shows that an equivalent is installed (with possibly a script that pretends to do daemonic's job, but doesn't actually install the stuff in /Library/StartupItems.) > xfree86 (installs in /usr) and possibly There could be a virtual package (root-access) that automatically gets installed if the user chooses a root method at install time, or can be installed later (modifying the config file when installed.) There would have to be a concerted effort by the package maintainers to change the depends in those cases, however. I'd be willing to do some of the work (I'm working on another project right now <plug>http://nfsc.sourceforge.net</plug>, but I could spend an hour or two a day working on it (I'm out of work, and every bullet counts!)). -- GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9D5B8762 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
