-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vidiot wrote:
>>On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:20:55PM +0100, Nick Wilson wrote: >>> >>> Just a quickie, where should I put the src directoriew for programs that >>> I download? Is there an accepted standard or is it a 'take your pick' >>> type thing? >> >>Call it extreme paranoia but I prefer not to compile anything as root. >>I have a "build" directory in my $HOME where I put all the tarballs >>I download. > >If it is a system program, root needs to do it so that it can get installed. No, root only needs to do the final 'make install', if the target - --prefix is a system location. You shouldn't do anything as root that does not require root. Some pedantic software authors enforce this, by the way ... courier-imap won't compile as root, for instance. Of course, to prevent your source trees from being tampered with by anyone but root, even in the event of a user account compromise, the source trees have to be owned by root too. So I don't have an official position on it. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPEdYKr9BpdPKTBGtEQI5gQCgoqE6PG9wucYNA6lbLFa9pYElPE4AoLs5 2GhDLHZ8prHzvLpiqT4tk1tC =1i54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
