On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:55:54AM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's the ideal solution. In the real world, my suggestion may > improve the situation faster. > > Just got an other idea, slower too, but makes the "ideal solution" more > realistic: Someone writes a tool analogous to piuparts, but not for > install/upgrade, but for package building. This tool would check > whether any tool used in the build process does nasty things, like > accessing $HOME, communicating over the network, assuming existence of > particular files in /sys or /proc, and the like.
Something similar should be done with package installations... I hate that my /root is cluttered with .gconf, .anthy, .gnome, .gnupg, .qt ... while I never run that kind of software as root... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
