Re: Proposal: Enabling unprivileged chroot by default

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Like all uses of FreeBSD, that's difficult or impossible to track.  To
> put this in context, I started the discussion because I'm looking for a
> way for ordinary users to reliably build and install software with or
> without assistance from a sysadmin.  The prototypical user in my mind is
> a researcher using workstation managed by their employer's I.T.
> department, or a shared resource such as an HPC cluster, run by their
> employer or maybe ACCESS CI.
>
> The solution is a simple, cross-platform package manager that will be
> usable without any assistance from I.T. staff.  There aren't nearly
> enough qualified sysadmins in the HPC world, or academia in general, so
> it's important that the system allow users to self-serve on whatever
> resources they have access to.  This can eliminate huge delays to
> important research.  In my 20 years in the business I saw countless
> cases where research was held up for months while people searched for
> ways to install software that could be deployed in seconds by any decent
> package manager.

(sorry for the off-topic)

This is basically solved by PackageKit, AppStream, GUI for PackageKit
like KDE Discover and finally AppImage.