From: fw <fwmailinglists@...>
Date: 2008-02-03T00:51:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Temporarily dropping root access

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 00:37 +0900, John Joyce wrote:

[..snip..]

> Sure!
> Many installers run as root, so often building with make would  
> require sudo,
> same can be for rake.
> Anytime something needs to write to a directory not owned by the user.
> 

Building as root != installing as root. The build process _should_
always be able to run as any user, though installation may have to run
with elevated privileges depending on permissions on the target file
system.

Felix