On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:38:31 -0800 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 11/28/16 1:35 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > I don't think they do that anymore. Today, the de facto recommendation > > from GNU would be automake, which installs all executables 0755. Here bash > > stands out as doing something possibly wrong. > > I disagree that it's wrong, per se. Certainly there's no real compelling > reason to change it now. Who wants to be able to edit a shell script in > situ after it's been installed? The obvious answer would be: someone trying to debug it. Not saying that I ever did that, just answering the question. I don't have a convincing argument for you. In my case, it was caught because I was checking packages for accidental wrong permissions -- and it triggered my check as I didn't predict anyone would install files non-writable by their owner. That doesn't change the fact that I'd prefer to see this changed, if only to make me sleep better seeing all files in /usr/bin having the same permissions, in a pretty row of 'ls -l' ;-P. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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