On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:53:25AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Having to invent a method of telling the rules file it's running under > > fakeroot rather than real root is equally annoying. (Right back atcha!) > > I don't get it. Why would you need that? All that's needed is to > _not_ put dh_testroot in the clean target. It serves no purpose. > If you need root to clean then you'll know soon enough.
By the same measure, the dh_testroot in the binary rule would serve no purpose either, you'd find out it went wrong soon enough. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.