[Fink-users] Unprivileged User Installation.

[Daniel Wyeth]

Several months ago a series of messages were posted to this list 
regarding the installation of Fink and its packages from an 
Unprivileged User Account.  They contained instructions which detailed, 
to some extent, the changes needed in the source files for fink and 
dpkg in order to allow any user with sufficient permissions in the 
temporary and install directories, to install Fink or compile and 
install packages through it.  The ability to do this would seem to be 
highly desirable, as it would prevent the possibility that a fink 
package could ever modify or replace a System file, and allow users who 
do not have Root privileges on their machines to use Fink.  Sadly I can 
no longer find these posts in the mail archives, however if anyone 
remembers them, I, and I suspect many other users would be interested 
to know whether:
	
	i )	anyone had successfully employed those methods to install Fink
		and to compile and install packages through it.

        ii )    what the official position of the Fink developers / maintainers is
                on the methods it describes.
        iii )   whether the official developers / maintainers would consider
                implementing these patches into the standard distribution. *
	iv )	whether anyone still had a copy of the details lying around 
somewhere.

Daniel

* among the thousand and one other things to which they generously give 
their free time for little compensation other than the occasional 
expression of our appreciation ;-)



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