On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 08:22:22PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell them > > to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only. > > It's not bad advice. I see fakeroot consistently causing problems for > people, and I've, personally, had bad experiences with it in the past > on 4+ architectures. On the other hand sudo *works* (assuming one is > able to set it up, which is merely a matter of reading the fine > manual) and I've _never_ seen reports of problems with it similar to > the ones people have (had?) with fakeroot. > > I also don't see any bonus in using fakeroot to build your own > packages as presumably one isn't going to hax0r oneself and you _need_ > root on a box somewhere (though not necessarily the build machine, > granted, but in 99% of cases people build and test on the same > machine, I suspect) so you can install & test a package (as any > uploaded package should be).
I've been a sudo user as well and use it because I trust it. The only benefit I can see to fakeroot is that I don't have to enter a password. What sorts of glitches do people get with fakeroot? > > So I'll continue to pimp sudo as long as people continue to have > problems with fakeroot. YMMV > > -- > James > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
