retitle 170850 dpkg: Please add support for user installable deb packages tag 170850 wontfix thanks
Hi On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:22:07 -0500, Yury Sulsky wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.10.9 > Severity: wishlist > Hi, I think it would be a great addition to the deb package system > if some packages could be labeled user-installable. > > i.e., something analogous to > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/Programs > when compiling from source. > > This would be useful if, for example, I wanted to install my > favorite text editor on a machine I don't have root access to. Of > course, since dependencies in the main package db might disappear at > any time, we would also need an operation that searches for broken > dependencies between the user's db and the main db. Exactly, because the system db might easily get out of sync with each user db, this is going to be a mess, obviously some kind of hook system or similar could be invented here so that dpkg knows of the existence of those additional databases, but then there's also the problem of dpkg trusting them, which are under user control, posing security risks. So this starts getting really complicated for IMO too small benefit. You are equally served currently with extracting the binary package with dpkg-deb in your home directory. I'm thus marking this bug report wontfix. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
