[PLUG] Replacement for /usr/src?

[Larry Brigman]

On 1/16/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    It was suggested by someone on a newsgroup that /usr/src/linux has been
> deprecated for several years, and kernels and SlackBuilds should be done as
> a user in another directory rather than there, as root.
>
>    What's the scoop on this? More to the point, does it matter? If so, why.
>

Some source packages that use the kernel headers and do auto config look for
the kernel sources in two places /lib/modules/`uname-r`/source and
/usr/src/linux.
Barring finding the kernel sources there a package will ask you where
your kernel sources
are.
Building a kernel does not require root privileges except to do make
module-install and
make install.
Most packages will build anywhere as any user and only need root to
run install.  The only
problem I see is that if the install script does not do thing
correctly then your files
from the package are tagged as the user that built them.