On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:37PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > I'm wondering what the justification for doing this is. It prevents, for > instance, a home user compiling his own deb before installing unless he > specifically compiles it under root or fakeroot.
The build process needs to produce a tar file from a build tree with ownerships and permissions set in a manner only root can. It would be possible to produce the tar file via alternative means to those used currently, but it's a lot of effort for not much gain.
