[debhelper-devel] User-installable Debian packages? -> uapt-get

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Sat Jul 22 14:12:08 UTC 2017


Hi,

Niels Thykier wrote:
> Simon McVittie:
> > On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 at 12:28:04 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> >> And quite some packages in our
> >> distribution do not really need to be installed as root if they were
> >> installed where the user has write permissions. There would hence be
> >> little overhead over what we have now. Should we not somehow find ways
> >> to tag any such location-agnostic packages and prepare dpkg for
> >> installing e.g. in $HOME/.debian when it is executed as non-root?

There is https://github.com/alexmyczko/uapt-get which also tries to
achieve that.

		Regards, Axel
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