Excerpts from Hubert Grzeskowiak's message of 2010-04-23 02:35:18 +0200: > > Hi, > > I wonder whether it's possible to install files for a user > > automatically. Sometimes it would be appropriate to create user specific > > files instead of or in addition to the system wide files. > > I wonder whether this is possible and how. I guess it would at least > > require a post-install hook in the install file but that's as far as my > > guess goes. > > > > Thanks, > > Philipp > The only way to do that is writing a globally installed script that copies or > downloads required files into $HOME. > That's because the whole packaging system is made with root permissions in > mind. For user-space packages there are other systems, independent of > pacman's.
That's what I feared. Guess I'll stick to post-install messages then. Thanks
