A.J. Venter wrote:
>> But you don't need to be root to create the package, do you?
> Actually you do. Slackware packages require that you set all the files as
> root-owned before creating the tarball - and THAT cannot be done by a normal
> user (permissions are specified at build-time, not install time).
> It would be possible to bypass this with fakeroot -but of couse that would
> add
> a new, stupid, dependency.
It's not stupid for package creators to have - it is essential IMHO.
Micha
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