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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Ownership of installed files
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

It's not clear to me that having installed files owned by the uid
building the binaries is such a bad thing.  It has two obvious
advantages:

- self-documenting

- typically the builder, installer and maintainer are the same
  person.  Why shouldn't she be able to have write access to the
  installed directory?  This could certainly be construed to be a
  feature as much as a misfeature.

I know that *I* prefer software installed by me and others to be owned
by that userid.  And I only install as root if I really have to.

Also, there are 2 obvious workarounds to the "problem" of installed
files owned by hniksic:

- chown -R after install

- untar, compile and install as root.

So, given that, I suggest fixing other things more in need of fixing.

Martin

