On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
Hi,
Since I have started a project that needs to be redistributed
(it'll be GPL)
I've started to deeply read Autoconf and Automake manuals.
Well, I had read some of FHS too, to know what I should do and
what I should
not do with my file hierarchy.
But, what came to my mind (maybe it's possible today) is that we
could make a
new "file system" subtree in every ~. For example, a user will be
able to do
a "./configure ; make" but if the system is well-administrated a
user won't
be able to run a "make install", since it can cause problems to the
system.
(I know we, Gentoo users, don't care about that). But what I wanted
to say is
that if we are not root (typical case) we could do a "./configure ;
make ;
make install" (in an app called 'whatever') and it could create for
example
"/home/me/bin/whatever" and "/home/me/share/doc/whatever" or
"/home/me/doc/whatever", and so on.
That would be great since a normal user won't infect any root
filesystem, and
an administrator can fix any tricky problem deleting "/home/me".
Bye and thanks !,
Rafael Fernández López.
You might want to check out Gobolinux, it's an unusual distro that
make the breaks the FHS by making the file system into a version
control system for installed packages. Gobolinux has a "rootless"
option that lets an unprivileged user install software into their
home directory using their package system. It can work in conjunction
with any other distro, Gentoo included.
http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=rootless
Dave
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