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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59821] "pkg update" on windows unexpectedly i
From: |
Nicholas Jankowski |
Subject: |
[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59821] "pkg update" on windows unexpectedly installs packages to local |
Date: |
Sun, 9 May 2021 22:55:48 -0400 (EDT) |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36 |
Follow-up Comment #31, bug #59821 (project octave):
ok, about the consistency of the 'administrative rights' text. Looking
around, it seems 'administrative privileges' is a more generally used term to
cover all OS's. How about changing text at the front to the following:
## Packages can be installed globally (i.e., for all users of the system) or
## locally (i.e., for the current user only).
##
## Global packages are installed by default in a system-wide location. This
is
## usually a subdirectory of the folder where Octave itself is installed.
## Therefore, Octave needs write access to this folder to install global
## packages, which is usually only available when Octave is run with
## administrator privileges, such as when run as root (or superuser) on
## Unix-like systems, or run with elevated privileges ("Run as
administrator")
## on Windows.
##
## In contrast, local packages are installed by default in the user's
## home directory (or user profile on Windows) and are only available to that
## specific user. Usually, they can be installed without administrative
## privileges.
## Every time @code{pkg} is run Octave checks to see whether or not it has
## administrator privileges and sets the default install location to the
## global or local location accordingly. Options when running @code{pkg} can
## changed this location as described below.
##
...
## @item -local
## A local installation (package available only to current user) is forced,
## even if Octave is being run with administrative privileges.
##
## @item -global
## A global installation (package available to all users) is forced, even if
## Octave is not being run with administrative privileges.
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