Sven Joachim wrote: > Why would anyone want to run the build target as root? If you do that, > even running the clean target as root might not give you a state where > you can build the package as a normal user again.
Because there was a time when fakeroot didn't work on some architectures and the buildds used sudo. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
