Re: [pacman-dev] Lock file location

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:40:15 -0400, Dan McGee wrote

Is this acceptable to everyone? The benefit it gives us is if this location is writable, the DB is surely writable by the user running pacman, and we can remove the dependence on the pacman user being root.

It sounds reasonable to me, but in the 10 minutes of thought I've given to it just now, I can't visualize a case where we wouldn't need to be root when the database needs to be locked anyway. Locked DB generally means writing to DB, ie adding/removing pkgs, which requires root anyways. Am I wrong? -- Travis