From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo in kernel config ?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:51:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009112251.48123.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i6gp38$773$1@dough.gmane.org>
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:34 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Nikos
Chantziaras did opine thusly:
> On 09/11/2010 11:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010,
> > Albert
> >
> > Hopkins did opine thusly:
> >> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> >>> few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the author
> >>> wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root.
> >>
> >> I call bullsh*t. I've been compiling kernels for 17 years and for the
> >> most part have done it as root without any problems.
> >
> > Same here.
> >
> > The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-*
> >
> > Someone tell me again exactly how user alan is supposed to build those
> > sources?
>
> chown -R
I utterly fail to see the point of this prohibition against building as root.
Sure, it makes sense when I'm installing perl stuff for my users and last
command is sudo make install. But for everything else?
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 8:24 [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ? Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 9:46 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 10:41 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 13:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-09-11 15:53 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 20:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 20:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 20:51 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-09-11 21:05 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-12 8:14 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 20:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-09-11 20:28 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 22:05 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 22:03 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-11 23:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] " Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 9:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-12 10:24 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Al
2010-09-11 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Dale
2010-09-11 21:01 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 21:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 21:47 ` Dale
2010-09-11 23:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-12 16:59 ` walt
2010-09-11 17:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
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