Something that I do like in Slackware is that the build scripts to generate
Slackware packages assume that they will be run as root. Moreover the tool
buildpkg does not allow to set the correct owner of the files in a package
without doing a chown on the to-be-packaged directory (which requires to be
root); making impossible to make a build script which is able to generate a
package without being root. Making a package as root can be very dangerous
since we do a make install; maybe not with the official build scripts
(which are well tested) but well with home-made or hacked build scripts.

This approach contradicts the philosophy of never being root when you do not
really need to.

That's said, Slackware is still my preferred distro; but that does not
prevent me to point out some negative points ...


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Olive