On 7/27/20 2:24 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00042.htmlI can understand increasing permissions to allow +rx on installation directories, but why force 755, thus disallowing group writability? I've never understood this forcing of 755.
I expect it was by analogy with regular files, where are already forced to use the equivalent of umask 22 when being installed.
This could have been a decision I made years ago when modifying GNU 'install' - I've forgotten the details. (No doubt it was a good decision at the time. :-)
