* Simon McVittie: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 at 12:28:04 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: >> And quite some packages in our >> distribution do not really need to be installed as root if they were >> installed where the user has write permissions. There would hence be >> little overhead over what we have now. Should we not somehow find ways >> to tag any such location-agnostic packages and prepare dpkg for >> installing e.g. in $HOME/.debian when it is executed as non-root? > > Rather than inventing a new wheel and having another Debian-specific > thing that can only be used on Debian (and not even on derivatives > without it being a "Frankendebian" system), might it be better to use > Debian's source, binaries or a mixture of the two as input to creating > something cross-distribution like Flatpak, AppImage or Snap? I would > personally recommend Flatpak.
But it's not clear if the HPC community wants to run containers/namespaces at all. Maybe Steffen can comment.
