[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Remove --asroot switch from makepkg.

Loui louipc.ist at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 00:34:10 EDT 2008


On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:05:02 +1000
Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Loui wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:54:07 +0200
> > Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Loui wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I've found --asroot to be kind of a hand holding hindrance so I decided
> >>> to remove it. Here's the patch if anyone is interested. Cheers.
> >>>       
> >> Any chance you can rebase this againt the current git master version?
> >> For example, the usesudo option no longer exists there, while it appears 
> >> in your patch.
> >>     
> >
> > Here's the patch rebased against master.
> 
> As a bonus, you also fixed the bug I was going to point out.  Can we go 
> back to the "permanent, catastrophic damage" rather than "serious 
> damage".   The first one sounds more disastrous and people running 
> makepkg as root should be scared!

Maybe we could make it even scarier than "permanent, catastrophic" for
comic relief. Heheheh.

"permanent, catastrophic damage to your system, home, family, pets, the
planet, and or universe."




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