[aur-general] Dangerous package - requesting temporary removal

Ionuț Bîru biru.ionut at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 16:17:37 EDT 2010


On 06/29/2010 11:11 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>   I'm requesting that "libcamp-git"
> (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38213) be removed for the time
> being. The packager appears to be inexperienced and currently MAKING the
> package results in pollution of the user system if the user has root
> permissions. If not, the package fails to build.
>

that's why you should never build packages as root. it has "make 
install" without specifying destdir

> I notified the maintainer in the comments and I'm unsure if I'm being
> unfair by already bringing this up on the mailing list since he appears
> to be inexperienced but what the package does is rather dangerous.
>
> -- Sven-Hendrik

i've disown it and if you want you can fix it

-- 
Ionuț


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