2007/5/8, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, 8 May 2007 12:12:22 +0200 "Raffaele Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Me too compile kernels as root and really would like to know why it is > considered such a bad habit. It's generally considered a bad idea to do anything as root unless it's absolutely necessary. I suppose it's one of those rules that's meant to be broken if you know what you're doing, but it's kind of a slippery slope; it's likely that sooner or later you'll do something that you'd regret less if you hadn't done it as root :).
That's ok, I follow the general (healthy) rule and do not log as root if unnecessary, but for kernel (and program) compile I can not picture 'make-kpkg' or 'configure && make' doing something regrettable. Anyway I hope not to fall in the slippery slope. :-) As someone said: "to err is human, but for a real disgrace you need the root password"
cheers > raffaele Celejar
raffaele
