Re: Install program

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn mail cybersites com>]

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Marc Ewing wrote:

> > 	How is this problem being solved?
> 
> Well, that's really a policy/usage issue and has nothing to do
> with RPM (or dpkg).
> 
> RPM has enough features so that uses can also use it to install
> into a some /home/marc/mysoftware/... hierarchy and keep their
> own RPM database.

	Of course!  Look at my next post for a better example of what I'm
talking about.  The idea isn't that this is impossible, it just sounds
like, from what peopel are planning, that this won't be easy/intuitive.  

						-Ben

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