On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 11:54:39PM -0700, larry a price wrote: > so what i'm hearing from you and seth is that having a peer network > gives a certain amount of untraceability and freedom from limitation > that would not be available with a central "trusted base".
Not necessarily, but likely, yes. > What about issues of keeping the peer versions in synch, or do you prefer > that every tribe roll their own...Not That Theres Anything wrong with > that. Hey, there's people distributing software who release different packages with the same name. If it's not going to happen with indivdual projects, it's not going to happen everywhere. Perhaps it's ironic that gnut is one of those projects. > for instance this calendar (which is empty right now) is a single > source for information for events up to six weeks in the future. > > http://allie.office.efn.org/opncal/ > (send me email to schedule events) If people have interest, they will use it, if not, they won't. I'm not talking about the calendar in specific, but things in general. Sometimes people just don't like to be "part of that crowd", whatever "that crowd" is. And some people are just lazy. > But for trading shots of drew barrymore flashing her tits it's better > to just search all the local peers for references. > > Is that correct? And yes jacob i do appreciate your concerns regarding > security. but that's why you have apt-get source <package> Do that often and you will have a messy fs. It would be nice if Debian would provide a decent structure for building packages from source. > although interoperability between dpkg and the bsd ports system would be a > good thing. Not likely to ever happen. Especially not as Debian disregards /usr/local, which is the default $PREFIX for pkg_add. Oh, about your question the other day about unprivileged users installing software: It can be done with pkg_add, just use the '-p $PREFIX' option. Of course, the user will have to be able to write to the $PREFIX ... sudo also allows very fine grained control of who can be privileged to do what, as in userx can apt-get install communicator, but cannot apt-get install anything else, while group libuser can apt-get install lib*. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
