Quoting Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> > Well, most *like* the idea of simply double clicking on an exe, and
> breezing
> > thru the default, untill 'Finish'. The one hurdle I see here is
> administrative
> > access to a machine. I'd love to see RPM and/or dpkg start to install
> stuff
> > under an individuals home directory, aka, /bin, etc, when installed by a
> normal
> > user, and have some sort of setting that would allow anyone to run it.
> I'm not
> > sure how this would work, and maintain the machine correctly.
> This also is solved in the latest RH release. There's a package called
> usermode (I think that's the one) that lets you run certain things as
> root, if you're logged in on the console. You can configure what it will
> let you run, but GnoRPM is one of the apps that you can run by default, I
> believe.
Hrm.. Then an option to install in user space instead of system space would
be all that's required. Since I *KNOW* the first thing that'd happen to me is
some RPM conflicts with some silly game my wife installs..
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Thomas Charron
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