From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 4 01:45:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B104916A417 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:45:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (kininvie.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE1813C458 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:45:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from [10.66.240.106] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m041jROP010342; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:45:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) In-Reply-To: References: <20071111155343.GC1567@ted.stsp.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jo Rhett Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:45:21 -0800 To: Doug Barton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Spam-Score: undef - jrhett@svcolo.com is whitelisted. X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: 210300 - 6506f20b7ed7 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 64.13.135.12 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] portmaster with SU_CMD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:45:27 -0000 On Nov 11, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > This is very interesting stuff, but I don't see how it would be > useful to a very wide audience. My feeling is that the vast > majority of our users build and/or install ports as root, and I > don't see any good reason for that not to be the default practice. Heh. If you weren't Doug Barton, I'd wonder just how often you build random ports. Lots of them have very broken install scripts. I *never* build or install ports as root unless the package's install is too broken to escalate properly and then I assume that everything else is broken too and read it carefully by hand. > I'll review your patch more thoroughly when time allows (since we > are in a freeze I can't add new features right now anyway) but I'm > not inclined to add this unless there is a fairly substantial > clamor for it. clam clam clam... -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation Support Phone: 408-400-0550