I thought of an idea this morning that would be pretty keen. The fink system requires
us to have root access to install packages, so we have to su to root, log as root or
use sudo. And to keep the cvs updates clean, fink updates the /sw/fink folder as a
user (well, this is an optional feature, as I understand it). This enables me to
manually go into /sw/fink and do 'cvs update', if I so desire. I really like this
idea, but I thought of another place it could be useful. The fink program often
builds other programs from source. I think it would be very useful if it would make
sure to execute that build as a user, instead of the superuser; and do installations
(of course) as superuser. Sometimes an unstable package doesn't build for whatever
reason, and I then go into /sw/src/package-name and try to build it myself. I'm
always forced to 'sudo -s', or maintain root privs some other way, because fink builds
as superuser.
[Pardon me if this is the wrong place to submit suggestions, but I was poking through
the website and this list is where I think it told me to go.]
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