On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > Why is it so? What's wrong about building rpms as root? > > Because as root, a mistake in your specfile could hork your whole system. > Not just a mistake in the spec file, but also mistakes or unexpected > behaviour in "configure" scripts and generated Makefiles. Yeah -- "oops, that's not installing to the buildroot at all!" -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
