Hi, On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 17:04, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > 2) Docker doesn’t require installing anything else to be useful for > > non-root users, if podman does, it should be in Depends. > No, it's wrong. > Docker has two modes. > 1. root mode. It runs a daemon, and listens to a local socket, which > is /var/run/docker.sock The socket is owned by docker group. Non root > can't access this unless you are in the docker group. > 2. rootless mode, you need the uidmap and rootlesskit package to setup > the demon for non root users. > So, it never requires no thing for non root users.
That’s an implementation detail. From the user’s point of view, a package which gives an error on install without any clear pointers to what went wrong (e.g. "try to run as root?") looks like a broken package. -- Cheers, Andrej _______________________________________________ Pkg-go-maintainers mailing list Pkg-go-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-go-maintainers
