Most common and uncommon installation method for Acrobat Reader

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 07:30 -0600, Samartha wrote:
> My guess is that it's much less than 5 % of all Linux installations of
> Acrobat Reader possibly doing this.

I would suspect most technically aware users don't use acrobat reader
because of the javascript problems.

> Now, my co-worker proclaims that this (under a user's home directory) is
> the common method to install Acrobat Reader under Linux and this opinion
> is percolated up the management hierarchy.

I think you'll find a mix that varies between sites where users personal
file store is mounted "noexec" to keep the slaves at work and home
systems where the user is root and can do as they like

It is bad security practice to allow end users random software
installations because it becomes impossible to pull a package or update
all copies of it reliably if there is a security hole. It's one of the
big problems many Windows environments face and it isn't directly a
Microsoft caused problem.

Alan