Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> But there is an ordering choice. local has priority. >> >> By default, we assume the local administrator knows what he is doing. >> >> That is not going to change. > > Sure. But Sergey has a good point: why are there no bin and lib inside > /home so normal users can safely install software without risking > system-wide things to go wrong? > Most software allows this without issues -- just run "./configure --prefix=$HOME". You need to adjust $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH inside your shell startup scripts, and you're done.
I'd however strongly suggest not adding any additional directories in $HOME by default (e.g. via /etc/skel.d) -- how to organize this should be the users' choice. I for example use --prefix="$HOME/.system/stow/<PACKAGE>" for each individual software package, so I can quickly remove and reinstate them using GNU Stow. Having ~/lib and ~/share, ~/bin, etc. unconditionally created in my home directory would just be useless clutter. Regards, Rotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
