[packaging] Useing distro package managers. Was: Re: Meeting next week to discuss trusted third-party repositories

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Tortanick <tortanick at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>At times relocatable is key if user has just run /opt out of diskspace.
>>Relocatable is just preference from user friendlness.  And in the rare case
>>we have a double up on a /opt/vendor/package.  Please beaware we do risk
>>unregulated ones out there.  So far I have seen no enforcement model
>
> Your right, relocatable is important, especially for people installing
> in /home

I'm pretty sure that no distribution package managers will ever
allow installing in /home.  Can we include that as one of the ideas
that belongs in other threads?
- Dan