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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Mathieu L. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> today at the lab someone made a comment while I was installing a Debian
> on a colleague's laptop, he said:
> "And when you do 'apt-get install whatever_package' as a user, does it
> install it anyway but prefixing to the user's home?" Which of course is
> not the way it goes under Deb, one has to be root to install.
> So I was pondering what you would all think about that implemented in
> smgl? It could be usefull on a multiuser machine when the admin is
> really reluctant with sudo imo. Is it feasible? do you think it's worth
> doing it?

Good timing. ;) Yesterday I had filed a bug[0] on this since I've had
requests from others for it as well.

- -sandalle

[0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9185

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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