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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] prefix in ~ when casting as user
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:24:07 -0700

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:43:12AM +0200, Mathieu L. wrote:
> 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" ;)
>

We say "great minds think alike" :-)

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