On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:08:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:07:05 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:18:55AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > I'd actually appreciate it if aptitude (or other such) would > > distinguish between packages whose use requires root permissions > > (whether by a setuid or not) and those that don't, and ask whether > > this is really intended. > > And who checks that the so-called harmless package is what it says. The > non-root user doesn't know anything about md5sums, security, ...
how about if aptitude could install in ~/blah if run as non-root? I'm sure there are implications I don't understand. A
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