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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erick Branderhorst) writes:
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> > I don't think it can be done this way, because a lot of makefiles are
> > organized in a way that they require the installer to be root at the
> > moment of installation, or am I misinformed?
> > Perhaps fooling install might be an option?
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> What do you mean by "require the installer". We don't use "make
> install" for the final install anyway, and if you're worried about the
I use make install in a lot of the packages I maintain because this is the
closest to the mainstream installation. And we want to provide users the
most close to mainstream installation but then better.
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> Reasonable?
Makes a lot of sense to me, can you hack install to do such a thing?
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