From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 12:19:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B109437B416 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16kskC-000E46-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:19:36 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id E204C13040 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:19:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 10D9722597; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:19:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:19:23 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports -- recursive make vs. recursive make install vs. su Message-ID: <20020312201923.GD790@raggedclown.net> References: <15502.21329.449926.531499@guru.mired.org> <001701c1c9fa$dd588ee0$0100a8c0@jayk1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001701c1c9fa$dd588ee0$0100a8c0@jayk1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:19:40AM -0800, Jay Krell wrote: > Ah..make depends. I'll try that..since most of the dependencies I figure are > runtime *.so rather than buildtime m4/autoconf/gmake. I did make /usr/ports > writable by everyone..there only really being root and myself.. > Mmm. I think a little perspective is necessary here :) There are legitimate uses for "root", installing system wide software being one of them. The point is, that even when you are the only person who will ever use your system, doing everything as root that you do not need to do as root will one day, as sure as eggs is eggs, crucify you. One day you will be logged in as root, you will be in a critical directory and you will type "rm -rf *". Your curses will be heard unto every corner of the universe. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message