In various places the LFS and BLFS books state that it's generally
recommended to compile packages as an unprivileged user, then become the
root user when installing the software (e.g. BLFS book, ch. 2, Notes on
Building Software). When switching to root, should this be done with a
login shell or non-login shell? I.e.:
su root
or
su - root (or su --login root)
Further on in BLFS, "sudo" is installed, so I suppose that would be
appropriate to use.
Alan
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