Installing software for only certain users

[Donn]

On Saturday, 26 July 2008 09:07:21 Toby Dickenson wrote:
> $ls -l `which amarok`
> -rwxr-x--- 1 root amarokusers 20380 2008-04-18 18:47 /usr/bin/amarok
> You might need to redo that if amarok gets upgraded.
Thanks Toby, I get the gist, but I can't help thinking it's a lot of work. 
I essentially want to keep one user's menu as clean as possible while my own 
can fill up with whatever. If I want blender, inkscape, phatch, eric, miro, 
scribus -- suddenly there are a lot of groups. 
 I suppose I could create a DonnOnly group and make sure the other user is not 
in it, but I'm still chasing binaries and scripts through the fs to keep them 
in line.

From a python-dev pov, I wonder how I'd write a python install file to offer a 
similar user exclusion. I have no idea! 

Perhaps the best route is simply to edit the user's menu and hide/remove the 
apps I don't want them to worry about.

\d

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