Sridhar R wrote on Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 06:12:28AM -0800:
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| In slackware *tgz packages can be installed in $HOME (or simply
| extract it over ~), why not apt have this (or specific) feature?
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deb is an 'ar' archive, so you can extract and play with it. Please
see:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/debian-devel-199809/msg01544.html
The only issue being running the {pre,post}{install,rm} scripts,
etc.,. AND those packages that are built with --whatever-dir=/etc/ or
somesuch in the package... so that might become a pain.
cheers,
-Suraj
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