As an aside to the beta install discussion, is it possible to install an RPM 
as an unprivileged user in Linux, in a way that it uses what's installed or 
tells you what needs updating? That would certainly make it easier for me to 
figure out when I upgrade something whether I can test code with local 
versions of stuff.

I.e., say I have a relatively complex system, and I want to test out a new 
version of MySQL. Is there a way to take the RPM and tell it to install 
things "locally" or "for one user", and have it put it in a non-privileged 
directory?  Will it look at current versions of packages, tell me what else 
it needs, etc etc?  Or does the package system really only work well for 
root, and installing locally needs you to basically compile it from sources?

I did some googling, but the answers I found are trying to be helpful 
without explaining how much pain is actually involved. Is it easier to set 
up a second machine than to have (say) two versions of Apache installed on 
the same machine?

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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