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[ILUG] "unix style" package management

[ILUG] "unix style" package management

Padraig Brady padraig at antefacto.com
Fri May 10 13:41:06 IST 2002


Nick Murtagh wrote:
> On Friday 10 May 2002 12:27, Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>I found the following very interesting
>>http://www.karmak.org/2002/04/fs/
> 
> 
> It's very similar to Dan Bernstein's ideas at
> 
>   http://cr.yp.to/unix.html

True, interesting.

> I wonder if it will be more successful? It would
> be great to have a distro that did this out of the
> box.
> 
> It would be nice to combine this with the NeXT idea of 
> hiding application files from ordinary users...

Hmm, users should be restricted to ~ or at least /home ?
I remember Corel's filemanager (which was quite good really),
restricted to ~ unless you were root.

Padraig.





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