Re: Linux ease of use

John Andersen wrote:

>On Friday 24 October 2003 02:21, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
>
>>The good news is of course, that you need to be root to install software,
>>and hopefully root will think for half a second before installing the
>>latest trojan.
>>
>
>A popular misconception.
>You can install software as a user into your own user space
>~/bin.  And thats probably where most of the click-install
>software should go.  
>
Correction. You *sould* be able to install stuff on your
own account. Unfortunately, however, most installers are
very inflexible, and require stuff that they install to
go to a *specific* place (which often is "/usr/bin" or
"/usr/local/bin").

I wrote installation software that is more flexible,
which uses preference variables to determine where
software gets installed. But the problem is, software
has to be available in that packaging format for it
to do you any good.
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>At least it can't do harm to anyone
>except that particular user.
>
That's *exactly* what I'm trying to tell Daniel and
Kwan.
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