[gobolinux-devel] Rootless withing GoboLinux

[André Detsch]

On 12/4/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> An idea I got that I just wanted to share and get some opinions on:
> How about enabling rootless by default within a gobolinux system? If I, as
> normal user, don't have sudo privileges couldn't it be possible for
> Compile and InstallPackage to fall back to some sort of rootless within my
> home directory? Not completly rootless (not that I have used it) but more
> like a user /Programs and corresponding /System/Links, which will be
> inlcuded in that users paths.

The user already can use Rootless this way, calling the
CreateRootlessEnv script on its Gobo system. In my opinion, having
this being done implicitly (instead of explicitly, like it is today)
would be too error prone.

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Andre Detsch