[arch-general] makepkg as root

[Doug Newgard]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 03:55:23 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:25:11 -0600, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> > I myself would dearly love to know what precisely about removing a
> > discouraged option qualifies as a major change.
> 
> Maybe the answer depends to the reason, that the discouraged option
> was provided for some _unknown_ reason.
...

The reason is mentioned in the commit removing the option:
https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=61ba5c961e4a3536c4bbf41edb348987a9993fdb