Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
>> On the tablet you just install apps. Why should the installer need
to be root to do so?
>> A properly configured device (as it should have been) should NEVER
ask for root permissions.
>> All programs just copy their own executables and write their own
configuration in a file. It can be made in a user writable directory
(perhaps in the memory card too [see below]).
>> Same holds for libraries.
>>
>> I can think of very few .debs (if any) that need to be installed by
root on a tablet.
>
> What you are describing looks like the sandbox in /var/lib/install
used in IT2005 for all packages. It crippled device extensibility a lot
and was a true PITA. I'd never go back.
>
I do not know how it was done on the IT2005. Why did it crippled the
device extensibility ?
(/var/lib/install looks like an odd place)
I mean, if my apps need to be called as "helloworld" and it looks at a
conf file called "helloword.conf", why I have to copy the executable in
/usr/bin and the conf file in /etc while I can just copy it to
/usr/local/bin (owned or writable by 'user) and the conf file in
/usr/local/etc ? (just to give an example) and add /usr/local/bin to
the path?
When the apps is build for Maemo you just need to pass
--prefix=/usr/local to the ./configure command and the app should know
where to look for the conf file.
I don't see why it should limit somehow the exensibility of the device.
Could you be more clear on that?
Thanks
--
anidel
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