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From: Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
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> > - My opinion - Its a very good idea!
> >
> > There is a point: Not all source package tarballs have this sequences of
> > building: ./configure; make; make install
> > and most of the time we need to be root for the install step.
> >
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> you do NOT need to be root to build RPMs, it is a _very_ bad idea, unless
> you need to create something which oes need root, e.g. mknod
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Strange ...
You are talking about RPMs, I was talking about tgz source tarballs ... uh?
wtf is that ?
I think you don't really understand what Alex was talking about
or you don't care about the idea...
Is your reply only to tell that it's not a good idea or what ?
Regards,
Serge Lussier
