Re: execline-1.05 non-root installation problem

"Nicholas E. Walker" <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:50:53 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.package
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:39:55PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> * Laurent Bercot:
> 
> >  On the other hand, if slashpackage users can agree on a "standard" way
> > of specifying the /package root, while bearing in mind that only /package
> > is fully supported and anything else is the admin's problem, then I'm
> > willing to adapt.
> 
> i don't understand all this.  aren't symlinks supposed to solve this
> problem?  i have all the /package locations as they're supposed to be
> and none of them on a physical directory named /package etc.

They are addressing the issue of non-root users wanting to have
slashpackages installed e.g. under their home directory because they do
not have the ability to use /package.

Nicholas