Software installation opinions needed

[Kandler]

In article <EMERY.90Sep19131715 at aries.linus.mitre.org> emery at linus.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
>     I get VERY UPSET by 3rd party installations that must be done as
>'root'.  An installation script should NOT require that it be run by the
>superuser to do mundane things such as get the stuff off the tape,
>...
>other than root.  Besides, in this era of viruses, etc, who knows what
>an installation script is doing to your system?
>
Yes, that's the reason why I always read a script before I execute it as root.
And that's the reason why I get EVEN MORE UPSET if an installation 
is not a script but a binary. Therefore I decided to leave SunOS
suninstall and friends alone and write my own installation scripts.
(Another reason is, that suninstall is so highly interactive. It's
very boring to install 40+ Suns and to answer the same questions
everytime.) I admit that Sun is not 3rd party but 1st party. But this
makes no difference im my eyes. I want to know _exactly_ what a 
installation does to my system. Someone in this thread mentioned DEC's
'setld'. I too think, that's the way to go. (I implemented a kind of
'setld' on our Suns. Sorry :-)
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