On wo, 2007-02-14 at 11:09 +0100, Pieter Baele wrote: > Op 14-feb-07, om 10:16 heeft Jan Claeys het volgende geschreven: > > The "programs don't run without admin rights" issue is slowly going > > away. > > For over 90% of the program installations in vista you need approval. > The short period I ran and tested the systems, I've seen 'OK' buttons > everywhere.
We wrote about "running", not about "installing system-wide". > >> Precompiled packages on linux are a bit difficult (system > >> directories), > > > > There are 'klik' and similar systems. And most programs allow > > overriding the system settings with ~/.blah files or directories > > anyway. > > > >> but if you compile the software yourself, you can specify the > >> installation directory at configuration time (your homedir for > >> instance). > > > > And for an easy way to compile everything, there is NetBSD's portable > > 'pkgsrc' infrastructure (and maybe Gentoo's 'portage' can be used in > > your home directory too?). > > > Indeed. But you can't mess up your base system as an ordinary user. > Isn't that the best of two worlds? Right, but that's how it works on a decently installed Windows system too (at least for the Professional versions, and probably in all Vista versions?). -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
