Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Remove --asroot switch from makepkg.

Dan McGee wrote:

So when this patch first got sent, I saw it as something that was just provided to the list for convenience, not really a candidate for merging. Do you guys think this should make it into makepkg? I'm not against removing options from makepkg, I just hadn't heard too many complaints about this option after we added it and people got used to it.

Probably not. Using makepkg as root should be inconvenient. I'd say the proportion of (new) users who would not see the warning message would be quite high, especially as it will quickly be replaced by build output.