From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 22:09:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsA4O_5wkB2A=t9S6PKWSV3bac+t-63VVqnt1T_UZMZcwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1212011457030.27930@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, luigi scarso wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 5) Generally it would be good to dilineate what should be done as root,
>>>>> and where normal user stuff starts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hm, to be root is not required -- have you found some problem ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Usually, normal users do not have write permissions in /opt directory.
>>
>> If we follow strict rules, "normal" user should not install the
>> latest context -- only the admin.
>
>
> And hence Steve's remark that the installation instruction should
> differentiate between what needs to be dun as root and what as normal user
> (the user run context --make needs to have write permission in TEXMFCACHE).
A normal user cannot even download first-setup.sh and install the files.
But if he can
then he can install context under his home and mkiv works ok -- no
need to be root.
This can be useful in a server that run context as service -- create
a user that manage the context, a common pattern
(apache, mysql, postgres, etc).
About /opt ,
it's a location for add-on, and it's usually unused by standard
distro (so one leaves the machine clean.): see
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES
In this situation the choice between homedir and /opt is of course a
personal taste, and I prefer to install
general applications (or applications that can be of general utility)
under /opt .
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 7:06 Pablo Rodríguez
2012-11-30 9:13 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 9:58 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 10:18 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 11:40 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 12:24 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 14:25 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 15:30 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 15:38 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 18:12 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 18:22 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 19:37 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 21:25 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 22:02 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 23:57 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2012-12-01 16:22 ` Steve White
2012-12-01 19:22 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-01 19:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-12-01 19:46 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-01 19:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-12-01 21:09 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2012-12-02 9:58 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 13:12 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-12-02 14:32 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 14:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-12-02 10:10 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 10:24 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-02 10:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-12-02 11:08 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 11:48 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 15:43 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 14:13 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-11-30 15:41 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 16:05 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 16:39 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-30 18:08 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 19:07 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-30 21:24 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 18:34 ` Steve White
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