[arch-general] makepkg running as root

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 22, 2008 6:09 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> It's a quite stupid protection to do in coreutils. On FreeBSD, the /
> directory has a flag so that you can't change or delete the / itself. They
> also do this on special system files that shouldn't be overwritten (that's
> why you can't tar up a FreeBSD system and unpack it on a random other box).

Agreed. The FreeBSD way is much more sane, though I guess we could
model it with immutable files in a way