>>>>> On Fri, 25 May 2001 03:44:46 -0400, Matt Zimmerman >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > Ben> I am hesitant to do (1) because of the user's disk space usage. >> > Ben> I am hesitant to do (2) because I'm not sure that debian wants a >> > Ben> million kde-theme-* packages on its servers. Matt> Is it generally possible (I know this is possible with sawfish) Matt> for the user to install a theme without root privileges? If so, Matt> then one big theme package is useful to allow a user to browse Matt> themes, select the one(s) they like, and copy it/them into an Matt> appropriate spot in their home directory (after which they can Matt> delete the big package). # apt-get install big-theme-package <user, probably main user of the machine, installs theme in ~> # dpkg --purge big-theme-package I do not like that method too much. You do two root things to save some system space, but then have to do those two root things everytime any user installs a theme? And furthermore, if a second user installs the same theme, the disk-space-savings story get weaker. It would be nice if there were a suid root, but user-runnable, theme installer which would install over the Network or from a local tarball of themes. That way a user could install the themes which he wanted, they would go in system space, and the other users would not have to install them also. One problem I see is a user downloading a malicious theme tarball, and installing themes from it, causing problems system wide. The verification process in the installer would have to be good. rob
