On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Why? It seems a good, fairly standard method for allowing (selected) > > non-root users to configure and build system software. (You still have > > to become root to install it, of course, but, IMO, that should be the > > only part of the process to require root privilege.) > > Debian does not use it, and admins who need it can always create it > himself.
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