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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:55:41PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org>:
> > For a while now I've been thinking we should try to minimize our use of 
> > 'root' and try to do everything using another user, say, 'sorcery' or 
> > something and only do the 'make install' commands as root (maybe a few 
> > others if necissary).
> > 
> > Other peoples thoughts / comments?
> > 
> > Geoff
> 
> I believe this was planned for some point in the future (perhaps now?) as 
> it'd
> be "safer" and also is a better idea, in general.

This is one of the planned benefits of a world with BUILD split up.

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