On 16/12/12 21:23, Johan Vromans wrote:
[Quoting Leon Timmermans, on December 16 2012, 22:10, in "Re: How To Build A P"]
There are many ways to deploy stuff, not everyone uses rpm/deb,
there are good reasons not to do so: for starters it assumes you
have root privileges.
Reality has overtaken these ancient views for a long time already.
Sudo wrappers help nonroot users.
In fact there is a few share of users using shared servers. But in the
other hand, there are a lot of users installing locally a Perl version
for each one of their project, knowing this way updating a module for
one of their projects will not ruin other projects running on the same
machine.
Therefore, restringing this magic to system-wide modules doesn't seem
fair, nor really useful.
On Android and iOS, users are not root yet they install apps all of
the time.
iOS is single user AFAIK. Android at the moment is single user as well
(with some new tries for multi-user). So not a big example.
My 2 cents,
ambs
