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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.  :)


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