Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > On the tablet you just install apps. Why should the installer need to be > root to do so? > A properly configured device (as it should have been) should NEVER ask > for root permissions. > All programs just copy their own executables and write their own > configuration in a file. It can be made in a user writable directory > (perhaps in the memory card too [see below]). > Same holds for libraries. > > I can think of very few .debs (if any) that need to be installed by root > on a tablet. What you are describing looks like the sandbox in /var/lib/install used in IT2005 for all packages. It crippled device extensibility a lot and was a true PITA. I'd never go back. Frantisek
