few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell, and the author wrote we 
shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root.

Is sudo (or kdesudo ?) a good replacement to that ?

Kdesudo works good to have xconfig, which is more comfortable that menuconfig. 
But is it a good manner of making things ?
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