On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:57:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think it would be very useful if it would make sure to execute that > build as a user, instead of the superuser; and do installations > (of course) as superuser.
The problem with that is some packages assume that they are being built by root, and do some things such as set the ulimit and change the owner of installed files to root (which is silly in most cases, since they would already be owned by root.) Personally, I would love to see a movement away from requiring root privileges except where absolutely needed. This would provide for greater security, not to mention the convenience of multiple fink installs, especially with the fast user switching in Panther. -- GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9D5B8762 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
