Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:48:13 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Fictif <fitctif@mysticjah.org> Cc: FreeBSD ML <FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports dealing with non-root users suggestion Message-ID: <20020422234813.D84809@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020422124051.A79219@mysticjah.org>; from fitctif@mysticjah.org on Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:40:51PM %2B0200 References: <20020422124051.A79219@mysticjah.org>
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:40:51PM +0200, Fictif wrote:
> The idea is to allow normal users to use the ports dir to install apps.
> I think it's an interesting idea to allow users to keep a clean home dir
> and this would allow the Admin to know what apps users are using... Then
> a script could link the existing apps existing on different users
> account toward a same location (btw,just in case the app was not
> installed by the Admin).
>
> Here is the idea which implies many features and requirements (like a
> dir for 'users ports' -needed for various libs, shared docs or logs files- which doesn't depend on the usual dirs). I don't see bigs troubles implied by this way of installing apps but you propably do (That's why I'm posting).
> IMHO, this have the advantage of reducing disk space used by users, this
> would give simple way to the Admin to monitor the users apps and to
> upgrade theses apps. There is probably a safe way to implement this
> using the existing ports dir.
And what's the reason normal users can't build ports now? Just set
DISTDIR, WRKDIRPREFIX, and PREFIX as appropriate. Feel free to report
ports that don't work this way, which shouldn't actually require root
privileges, as broken.
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