Re: Simplifying package installation.

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:04:38PM -0700, George wrote:
> 
> Why couldn't systemwide rpm check user's rpm db's, those could be setup
> similirly as say the mail is, in some /var/ subdir, and the system could read
> them in and check them as well.

But what is the need for that? You can't trust what users have installed,
since they can easily mess with that. A user should only trust root and
himself.

Ronald