Hi, Niels Thykier wrote: > Simon McVittie: > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 at 12:28:04 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > >> And quite some packages in our > >> distribution do not really need to be installed as root if they were > >> installed where the user has write permissions. There would hence be > >> little overhead over what we have now. Should we not somehow find ways > >> to tag any such location-agnostic packages and prepare dpkg for > >> installing e.g. in $HOME/.debian when it is executed as non-root?
There is https://github.com/alexmyczko/uapt-get which also tries to achieve that. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
