On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:07 AM, eliott <eliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 5/22/08, Michael Klier <chi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi Archers, >>> >>> <big snip> >>> >> >> oh man. I got excited reading this. >> >> I really like the first change you made. Using a directory with >> package specific sed changes on a per file basis is a kick ass idea. > > I agree, this is a smart move. My only real thought is why have > anything in /etc/ at all? It would be great if this could all be done > non-root for editing any config settings and such. Maybe ~/.srcpac/ or > something? > > It also seems almost overkill to need another user to build packages, > but not sure what to think about that. Anyway, great work with this. srcpac is also a wrapper around pacman, so it can install packages - hence the need for root.