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  • From: "Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] prefix in ~ when casting as user
  • Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:43:12 +0200

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:21:57AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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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

Nice :)
In french we have this saying which can be roughly translated as:
"Great minds tend to meet" ;)

Cheers,
Mathieu.






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