zeroinstall-injector

[Thomas Leonard]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:03:24 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote:

> Op dinsdag 09-01-2007 om 20:42 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Thomas
> Leonard:
>> I think you'll find the security model is rather different in Zero
>> Install.
>> 
>> In particular, it should never "break" a user account, since it only
>> ever writes to the directories ~/.config/0install.net and
>> ~/.cache/0install.net (which I presume Ubuntu isn't using for anything
>> else ;-). 
> 
> Do I understand your site correctly when I think that by default it's
> not possible to run "Zero-Installed" programs directly, but that it's
> required to start them using the '0launch' wrapper?

That's correct.

You can create short-cuts to do this (0alias creates a shell script,
AddApp creates a ROX app dir, Xfce's panel lets you drag links in, etc).

However, it's always the user (or admin) who specifies any short-cut, not
the package.


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