On Mar 7, 2013 7:00 PM, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
It occurred to me a while ago that I want a package manager that will
allow me
to install software and data packages to my home directory as well as
the
system at large.
Good reasons, but not possible. Packages are
On Wed 06 Mar 2013 10:50:43 NZDT +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
It occurred to me a while ago that I want a package manager that will allow me
to install software and data packages to my home directory as well as the
system at large.
My main reasons are that:
0 I want to be able to have one
It occurred to me a while ago that I want a package manager that will allow me
to install software and data packages to my home directory as well as the
system at large.
My main reasons are that:
0 I want to be able to have one user using unstable packages.
0 This could be useful to web store
I suspect gentoo's emerge would allow this.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.comwrote:
It occurred to me a while ago that I want a package manager that will
allow me
to install software and data packages to my home directory as well as the
system at large.
As an alternative, you could clone the system into a virtual machine,
and then make any of these one user modifications there. I have been
doing this from time to time as a way to manage the risks around
experimental system changes - if you mess it up or don't like the
configuration, simply
