On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 03:45:35PM -0500, Christian Demsar wrote: > Removing asroot reduces flexibility. For instance, when making packages on a > live install usb. You'd have to create a new account and su into it.
Why? Just do what Arch LiveCD has been doing for ages (i.e. having the 'arch'
user).
And regardless of makepkg, using an only-root system (even read-only) is asking
for trouble.
>
> It seems like a projection of morals to me. Just because it's not good
> practice to use root permissions when it's not necessary, doesn't mean it
> won't ever be useful.
makepkg uses fakeroot, there is simply no need to be running as a superuser.
>
> The argument for choice and freedom of the creators can also be successfully
> used to justify DRM.
Companies are free to produce whatever crap they want. Unless you are a FSF (or
RMS) fanatic, there is nothing wrong with DRM really.
Cheers,
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Leonid Isaev
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