Hi, On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:31:34PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Well, the fusionforge tarball will contain several generated files that > are not meant to be edited by the user (for example, fusionforge.pot, > and all the .gmo files), but they are all writable. > > You see, when a user unpacks a tarball, it already means he or she has > full permissions to whatever comes out of the tarball, so why make his > or her life even just a tiny bit more difficult by pulling the write > permission bit from one of those files? You are encouraging people > to use the -f option together with rm -r. Please don't do that.
Because too many times I've modified the file directly, only to find out after much debugging that it was overwritten by the build system. Even more so since .spec files are usually *not* generated :) -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Fusionforge-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fusionforge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fusionforge-general
