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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

That's a great idea! ;)

Care to write a patch to add support for it in Sorcery? This would probably 
just
do a check, and if it's run as non-root, ask if the user would like to install
to his home dir, if so, set the install path to $HOME and continue on, if not,
prompt for root password and continue as normal.

We already have three GUIs: xsorcery, ksorcery, and Tim.

xsorcery comes with Sorcery (needs the Xdialog package to be installed), but
hasn't been updated in a while and may not work.

ksorcery is a KDE-based front-end to Sorcery written by one of our users, Zach
Hobbs, and works fairly well.

Tim is a GNOME-based front-end written by another of our users, Eric 
Sesterhenn,
but, like xsorcery, has not been updated in a while and may not work with the
newer (post 0.9) Sorcerys.

-sandalle


Quoting Josh Fuhs <fuhs AT purdue.edu>:
> Hello,
> 
> I did some browsing around but couldn't find any conversation on this
> particular
> topic.
> 
> It seems to me that, though the Source Mage system is designed around the
> sysadmin's needs, it would be quite useful to regular users as well. As a
> normal
> user, I can install (to my home directory) all sorts of things which are in
> the
> grimoire and might be useful for me to do so, but I wouldn't be able to take
> advantage of the existing package management system. This seems like an
> unecessary limitation.
> 
> I would like to suggest that the system be altered so that regular users can
> make use of it. Maybe some reporting tools could then be made available to
> sysadmins so that they know what is being installed by whom.
> 
> It would also be nice to see a system where spells could be bundled with a
> package so that they aren't dependant upon the central grimoire authority.
> I'm
> thinking more along commercial lines on this one.
> 
> All that would be needed then are some user-friendly X apps to have a very
> powerful, easy-to-use package manager that could easily rival the MS
> Installer.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Josh
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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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