On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Alessandro Doro <ordo.ad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And not only for security reasons; If you have time have a look at > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14926 > in that case the permission problems affected the system directories. > > And times ago there where permission (umask) issues with users calling > pacman with sudo. > There is no problem calling pacman with sudo, I do that all the time. I think what you are referring to was a problem with non-standard umask, which has been fixed in pacman : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12263 If you used pacman as root with non-standard umask, you would have had exactly the same problem.
