Keith Keller wrote:
> Your previous post did not explain how you disagree with the above. How
> can you know you're getting the permissions correct if you do not run
> make install?

well, obviously, by hand-checking every file...

IMHO if you are creating packages meant for use beyond your own computer,
you shouldn't even do it on your own working install, but on another clean
install that is only used for the purpose. that way, you run the least risk
that some of your own customisations on your system cause the package to
not work properly on someone else's system. and if you have such a clean
system, the risk of being root while creating a package are quite
minimal. at worst you hose a virgin system.

and if you create packages just for your own system, well, you're gonna be
installing them as root anyway, so what's the extra risk of running 'make
install DESTDIR=/tmp/package ; cd /tmp/package ; makepkg blah.tgz' as root?

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