15 Jan
2014
15 Jan
'14
10:02 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 21:13:55 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
Larry McVoy scripsit:
How is this difficult? I've not had any problems that are
specific to the software not wanting to be installed as non-root.
You need to know some compiler flags like -R and ./configure
variables like CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, but other than that I've not
seen any problems that really stick out in my memory.
But with disk so bloody cheap and VMs working so
bloody well, it's pretty
easy to spin up a VM and give it to some idiot who thinks they need root.
./configure or not, it's damned hard to install large amounts of software
without root. You can do it, but it's hard, especially if some of it
is really really expensive to build from source, since you're blocked
from using the distro's own install tool. Most people who use Unix today are the only ones
there. Someone should
really rewrite finger(1) to do something different.
What do you do that this is the case? I'd literally be out of a
job if I didn't have a gaggle of users to look after. And so
would my entire team of coworkers. This is such a bewildering
claim to me and everyone I know that we can't fathom how it's
true.
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Chris Nehren