Re: Bob v0.1.0 ready for beta testing

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On Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 at 3:09 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> 
> 
> Jonathan Perkin jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost writes:
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> > * On 2025-12-29 at 21:29 GMT, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> > > - Is it recommended to "cargo install pkgbob" and all other steps as
> > > root (docs imply but do not state)
> > 
> > Not necessarily. cargo defaults to installing to your home directory,
> > but as long as you have PATH set correctly the installed binary can be
> > owned by any user, or install as non-root and run everything as 'sudo
> > bob', etc.
> 
> 
> Is there any reason it isn't in pkgsrc, or if it is, why we're talking
> about hand-install instructions?

It isn't in pkgsrc, yet.
It's on my TODO list but, I had other things to fix.

I don't know if jperkin@ wants to do a package for it.
If not, I'll give it a try soon.