On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:14:11AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:07:56PM -0700, Joseph Di Pol wrote:
> > >   - developer B, already working on that system, gets menu items?
> 
> But this is something you'd like to see?
> [...]
> 
> We've talked about having user images be "linked" to the full image they're
> part of.  I could see that linkage involving putting some system
> integration bits outside the image, assuming full permissions.  It almost
> feels like relocatable vs absolute paths in SVr4 packages.

It might be nice if there was a way to specify mktemp'ed names if you
did this (to avoid conflicts between multiple user image instances).

But how does this work if you have an NFS/CIFS-mounted home directory?
Note: networked homedirs complicate dependencies on non-user packages.

One possible answer: this is for laptops, don't do that in enterprise
environments.

> Another thing to think about is that if the goal is to have a package
> install into someone's home directory and install files in .gnome to do
> gnome integration, the package will look quite different than if the goal
> is to install it into a system directory, or a user image not associated
> with a home directory (which is not a distinction we have at the moment,
> but seems like it would be the norm for anyone doing multi-install).
> Perhaps this is solved by tagging files appropriately, and filtering on
> image type ...

Also, it might be nice if we could get skel user images.

Nico
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