From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 29 16:51:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2822A15663; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:51:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (Hamilton-ppp44858.sympatico.ca [206.172.76.51]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA26308; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA26453; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:49:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:49:16 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Doug Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , zaks@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extracted files' permissions Message-ID: <19990729194916.A26433@mad> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <37A0E5BC.CBA2B135@gorean.org>; from Doug on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:37:32PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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