On 07/12/2012 01:35 AM, Guy Dalziel wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 06:18:38PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: >> On 07/11/2012 01:54 AM, Guy Dalziel wrote: >> >> [putolin] >> >>> Can anyone recall why we don't build as root in the first place? >> That's a good way to trash your system. > As discussed before, I'm well aware of that; I was looking for an > explanation beyond the obvious. I'm still convinced that compiling as > root has issues with permissions of the compiled files. Not that I'm aware of. In fact, I'm pretty sure we'd hear about it if it did. I imagine that a lot of user run build scripts as root.
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