[PLUG] Replacement for /usr/src?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Jan 16 23:38:16 UTC 2007


On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Wil Cooley wrote:

> I think that was part of the reason it was deprecated: Generally, you
> shouldn't build as root; "make install" is all you should need root for
> (and not even that if you're building packages, but you aren't).  If for
> no other reason than that root tends to have fewer resource limits.
> Generally, if it doesn't need root, it shouldn't be done as root.

Wil,

   Only on the rare occasion that I build a kernel do I do so as root. But,
I'll move the slackbuild/ directory to another partition where I have full
permissions and build my packages there.

Thanks,

Rich

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