On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote:
User-mode fink is useful to a very small part of the fink population,
Not so. At work I lack root on many of the *nix boxes I use, so I regularly build and install the stuff I need in ~/local. A package manager like fink would be a godsend for this purpose.
I have not yet heard anyone mention the best reason for user-mode fink: trust problems. Do you really want to be running a ton of shell scripts and makefiles as root? Not me. I'd rather compile and build .debs as a regular user and only do the final install step as root.
Chris
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