From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 22 4: 2:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cha212186190131.chello.fr (cha212186190131.chello.fr [212.186.190.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5FAB37B404 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 87767 invoked by uid 1005); 22 Apr 2002 10:40:51 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:40:51 +0200 From: Fictif To: FreeBSD ML Subject: Ports dealing with non-root users suggestion Message-ID: <20020422124051.A79219@mysticjah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Fictif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message