On 28.07.2007 20:50, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Panu Matilainen wrote:
> I know I'm opening up Pandoras box here but what the heck, it's Friday
> and I'm feeling slightly bored...
>
> With RPM 4.4.2.1 fresh out and 4.4.x branched off to maintenance mode,
> time to start looking forward to next major release. While the focus
> will be largely in cleaning up and streamlining the codebase, it can't
> realistically be all about just that
User (as opposed to administrator) installs in their home directories. I
could run say Mozilla Firefox extracted from a tarball but having a
similar capability in RPM itself would be nice. [...]
+1 -- I think that's something that would be really nice to have. But
it's likely a "to big" project/idea for now, but maybe something people
could keep in mind when designing next generation's rpm, so maybe it's
then possible a bit easier with a later generation of rpm.
Just my 2 cent (¹)
CU
knurd
(¹) -- I get yelled at by my girlfirends now and then when I install
some experimental stuff for tests on the machine she uses and break her
Firefox/Thunderbird/whatever accidentally without noticing...