On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 09:12 AM, Jerry Talkington wrote:
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.).
Won't work, all users need them. fink users can mix apt-get and source installs. user IDs must match, so the passwd package uses the same UIDs for everyone. The best way to do it will be with a shared passwd database and a passwd package that adds the users on demand to the specific UIDs specified in the shared passwd database.
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.)
Actually, daemonic daemons are installed by the user with the 'sudo daemonic enable' command. There is no harm in having a daemonic package installed and not running that command. Most of them make little sense for a non-admin account in any case.
-Ben
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