Re: rawhide: kudzu-0.68-1 fails to compile

[John Summerfield]

> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've chowned it to me and do not build as root (regulars will have noticed 
> I'm 
> > reluctant to build anything as root; recent news wrt pinstrip is Good).
> > 
> 
> Excuse me for the stupid question, but why wouldn't you build a package as
> root?  Security reasons?  Even if you trust the sources?  Just trying to
> learn something from you, guys.   :-)

um..
When I first installed Linux, the book said "don't do stuff as root."

Paranoia.
Security concerns.

Lots of packages are broken.

Do you want to install that shiny new sendmail package you're building? Only 
last week an rpm I tried to build tried to install itself on my running system.

Do you want to pack stuff from your running system into that rpm you're 
building? That happens too - unfortunately building as non-root doesn't avoid 
that problem, but the fact it happens illustrates the need to take care.





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