Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

On 16/12/12 21:23, Johan Vromans wrote:
> [Quoting Leon Timmermans, on December 16 2012, 22:10, in "Re: How To Build A P"]
>> There are many ways to deploy stuff, not everyone uses rpm/deb,
>> there are good reasons not to do so: for starters it assumes you
>> have root privileges.
>
> Reality has overtaken these ancient views for a long time already.
>
> Sudo wrappers help nonroot users.

In fact there is a few share of users using shared servers. But in the 
other hand, there are a lot of users installing locally a Perl version 
for each one of their project, knowing this way updating a module for 
one of their projects will not ruin other projects running on the same 
machine.

Therefore, restringing this magic to system-wide modules doesn't seem 
fair, nor really useful.

> On Android and iOS, users are not root yet they install apps all of
> the time.

iOS is single user AFAIK. Android at the moment is single user as well 
(with some new tries for multi-user). So not a big example.

My 2 cents,
ambs