Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:49:16 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, zaks@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extracted files' permissions Message-ID: <19990729194916.A26433@mad> In-Reply-To: <37A0E5BC.CBA2B135@gorean.org>; from Doug on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:37:32PM -0400 References: <19990729161457.A727@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl> <199907292158.OAA50528@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990729185227.A25334@mad> <199907292257.PAA21531@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <37A0E5BC.CBA2B135@gorean.org>
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On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:37:32PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > Do we really want to force users to be root to install ports/packages? I > can think of lots of ways that this would be bad, since it dramatically No, I was wrong. Satoshi's patch was written correctly, I simply didn't bother to read it closely enough. Apologies for the confusion. > group wheel so that I can do some things (like download and extract stuff I > just want to look at) as a regular user. You should soon be able to make world as a regular user. :) -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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