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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:13:02 +0200
From:      Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: feature request for portmaster: check for permissions on  --check-depends and friends
Message-ID:  <l2wdfe7d2901004260113g1d3598e9we91f01dc3b026162@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BD51CD5.9040304@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <u2ta0777e081004251203t90986559m54fe956b679801@mail.gmail.com> <4BD51CD5.9040304@FreeBSD.org>

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On 4/26/10, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think?

i don't mind very much, but imho...

> OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like
> this that require root access to actually change things as a regular
> user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the
> command as root.

...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate. what if i, as a regular
user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)? that wouldn't be
"painless" :)
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org>
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla



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