Hamish Moffatt wrote: > A lot of packages used to test for root access in the clean target too. > That was standard practise before we had fakeroot. > > I suppose when you were building as root (non-fake), you would end up > with directories owned by root, so it made sense that you would need > root access to clean up as well. > > Now it's just an annoyance. Only the binary target needs root access.
Not quite. The clean target still should run as root unless you're building with fakeroot. For a variety of reasons, many people (and autobuilders too, I think) don't use fakeroot all the time. -- see shy jo
