On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Paul Davis <p...@linuxaudiosystems.com> > wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >>> In a specialized setup where you are in control of everything is >>> certainly possible. But in an osx scheme where the user just drops an >>> executable file somewhere it doesn't just work. You'd need something >>> like the the osx launch services to handle it. >> >> all sounds terribly reasonable, with one fatal flaw ... it *is* >> working for us right now, on linux (and various bsd's and solaris and >> ...) >> >> --p > > It "*is*" working only in a very limited way. All package managers > today need root access to install software, which is a security risk > (downloading a DEB from the Internet and double-clicking it allows > arbitrary code execution, as root). Also, eg. students won't have root > access on their school/university PC, making distro packages > completely useless. Installing multiple versions of a package is often > impossible because they're not relocatable. Portable apps for Linux > virtually don't exist. Those are just 4 examples among numerous > others.
you're going way beyond what i was responding to alexandre about. the original question was: > Also, apps that consume such files are also hard to relocate. Take > nautilus for instance, it looks for extensions > in /usr/lib64/nautilus/extensions-3.0/, but if you relocate it, how does > extensions know where to install extensions? i wasn't referring to anything involving package managers. portable apps for linux do exist, but i agree that they are rare. we could get into a very long discussion about why that is, but this doesn't seem like the right place for it (even though GTK's handling of run-time located- and loaded- resources is part of the issue for GTK-using apps). i have some strong opinions about it myself, and recently switched my primary project to portable/self-contained status. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
