Frantisek Dufka wrote: > 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. > I do not know how it was done on the IT2005. Why did it crippled the device extensibility ? (/var/lib/install looks like an odd place) I mean, if my apps need to be called as "helloworld" and it looks at a conf file called "helloword.conf", why I have to copy the executable in /usr/bin and the conf file in /etc while I can just copy it to /usr/local/bin (owned or writable by 'user) and the conf file in /usr/local/etc ? (just to give an example) and add /usr/local/bin to the path? When the apps is build for Maemo you just need to pass --prefix=/usr/local to the ./configure command and the app should know where to look for the conf file. I don't see why it should limit somehow the exensibility of the device. Could you be more clear on that? Thanks -- anidel
