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Apparently, though unproven, at 22:34 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Nikos |
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Chantziaras did opine thusly: |
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> On 09/11/2010 11:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, |
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> > Albert |
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> > Hopkins did opine thusly: |
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> >> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: |
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> >>> few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the author |
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> >>> wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root. |
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> >> I call bullsh*t. I've been compiling kernels for 17 years and for the |
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> >> most part have done it as root without any problems. |
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> > Same here. |
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> > The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-* |
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> > Someone tell me again exactly how user alan is supposed to build those |
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> > sources? |
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> chown -R |
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I utterly fail to see the point of this prohibition against building as root. |
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Sure, it makes sense when I'm installing perl stuff for my users and last |
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command is sudo make install. But for everything else? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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