[plt-scheme] Delpoyment/packaging questions

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, MJ Ray wrote:

>   For list-related administrative tasks:
>   http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
> 
> Kirill Lisovsky <lisovsky at acm.org> wrote:
> > 1. On a Unix (Linux) box an attempt to 'setup-plt' _any_.plt package 
> > without root privileges fails with:
> 
> I think this is a case where maybe setup-plt could offer to install it
> somewhere else, perhaps?  I don't think it supports removal or upgrade, but
> I could be wrong.
> 
It seems to me that setup-plt requires permision to open (for output!) this file,
/usr/local/lib/plt/collects/mzlib/compiled/cmdline.zo 
for installation of _any_ .plt package in _any_ place.

I just wonder what's the rationale behind?

Best regards, 
         Kirill.