> > > ---- Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 00:11, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > > > > > > > This is not a joke, I don't understand why, after installing the > > > > kernel-source rpm, I cannot make mrproper as a standard user. > > > > > > Because root is owner of these files. > > > > > Nope. It can be the owner, but I need write access. This is the first > > time I am forced to be root to run anything else than make install. > > If everybody is ok with that I still think that's wrong. > > > Fortunately, I don't use MDK kernels. Building as root is just plain > wrong. And yes, make mrproper IS part of building with Mandrake. >
You mean you can do anything else as non-root? This has been always so for as long I remember. Kernel-source is installed as owner root with mask 022. So you can't do anything as plain user because you can't create any file. Do you suggest installing kernel-source as world writable?
