On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 08:12:12PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > In the past I sometimes had no reason _not_ to run makepkg as root, when > I wanted to compile from ABS, located in /var/abs/. I'm aware about the > drawback, that actually isn't relevant for my kind of computer usage + > several available backups. However, indeed, for my needs non-root 100% > does do the job too. No, I won't copy from ABS to some user dir, I > simply will chown or chmod in a way the big teachers won't us to act > self-responsible (I simply ignored the kindergarten flame-war like > posts). JFTR my machine isn't a server or a terrorist top secret > whatsoever machine. It's a digital audio workstation and there are > several, individual, complete backups available for each month. ABSROOT=~/abs abs You can set ABSROOT in your bashrc or zshrc.
