Dan McGee wrote: > I agree, this is a smart move. My only real thought is why have > anything in /etc/ at all? It would be great if this could all be done > non-root for editing any config settings and such. Maybe ~/.srcpac/ or > something? > > It also seems almost overkill to need another user to build packages, > but not sure what to think about that. Anyway, great work with this.
As phrakture pointed out already root is needed for installing packages.
Keeping the configs below /etc is disputable though. You could also have them
in /var/{?} for example if that fits better.
The separate user is needed for the makepkg part of srcpac. Because your
invoke srcpac as root/sudo it has to drop privileges for the package build
process. Of course one could use an existing user (nobody?) and I said this is
merely a suggestion - however, the script has to drop privileges for the build
process in a way.
Regards,
Michael
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