[arch-general] makepkg as root

[Mark Lee]

On 01/04/15 00:40, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
>
>> DId you read any of Ralf's messages? He prefaces by commenting about
>> backwards compatibility and Torvalds' comments.
>>
>> This isn't just about makepkg; this is about backwards compatibility as
>> well. Just because yaourt changed it's process to match upstream doesn't
>> change any of the previous concerns about backwards compatibility and
>> dialogue regarding changes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mark
>>
> That was the offtopic I referred to. Well, some of it.
>
> Since it doesn't actually have anything to do with this change.
>
> As he himself stated:
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Linux and BSD user space is software based on other software. Yaourt
>> and some other software does need pacman. Pacman needs bash, curl and
>> other packages and those packages depend on other packages too.
>>
>> This policy does only work, when there are agreements about backwards
>> compatibility.
>>
>> makepkg provided the --asroot option and within a major release it
>> dropped backwards compatibility. Fortunately it is a minor issue that
>> --asroot is dropped, but the real issue is that it already might be a
>> fashion not to care about other software, not to care about work flows,
>> IOW to be careless, ignorant.
>
> Linus and systemd, while no doubt exciting, doesn't mean that the ArchLinux
> developers have decided it is cool to break backwards compatibility. So
> while have no intention of arguing with the concern for backwards
> compatibility, pacman 4.2 and the removal of --asroot is not a
> backwards-compatibility issue in the end, as the very person who brought it
> up ultimately determined.
>
> And thus, the concern about backwards compatibility is offtopic in this
> thread
>
> -- Eli Schwartz
I concur that the title is incorrect.

Regards,
Mark