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To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: ports/print/ghostscript4 
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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 03:17:25 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> They should!  Over the weekend I installed 2.1.5-R and 82 megs of
> packages.  With my fascist root umask, over half the ports were installed
> such that mear mortals could not use them.  Quite annoying.

find is your friend. :-)

> Could bsd.port.mk set a "umask 022"???

Sigh.......................................

It seems like every time this comes up, one half of the room screams
"It's NOT BROKEN, YOU CRETIN!  IT'S *SUPPOSED* TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE
UMASK!  WHAT IF I DON'T *WANT* MERE MORTALS TO USE A PACKAGE I'M
INSTALLING?!" and the other half then responds, with equally
gratuitous use of capital letters, "YES IT *IS* BROKEN, YOU FASCIST
BOFH ANAL-RETENTIVE TYPES!  EASE OF USE!  EASE OF USE! [chanting and
stomping]."

Things then usually degenerate from there.  I personally take the
position that if you want a nice umask, you should set a nice umask,
and this position also conventiently saves me the work of actually
changing anything.

					Jordan