[2010-08-23 19:15:13 +0100] Magnus Therning: > Is this *really* bad, in fact so bad that upstream should be told about it, > since it doesn't only affect packagers? (AFAICS the build system > provided by > upstream only works for individual users installing a personal build.) It's not that bad: at build time, after the main binary has been built, it is run to generate a configuration file - and this binary happens to always create ~/.program.d/ when it doesn't exist. Now, during the build process, this directory is never actually used and remains empty until the end of it (so you can build as nobody and then install system-wide). I really can't blame them for assuming $HOME is writable (both normally, and at build time, since it simplifies their build process); I see this as a rather unfortunate interaction with makechrootpkg. -- Gaetan
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