Hi! Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends building as non-root -- yet basically no distribution /helps/ the user with doing that.
I've discussed this with a few people on #gentoo-dev and they've provided valuable insight (thanks AxS, Chainsaw and WilliamH), so I have gathered the results so far here: http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2012/07/index.html#e2012-07-04T19_28_32.txt Feel free to comment (ideally here). Note that I'm aiming for a solution that is not (overly) Gentoo-specific. Thanks, Tobias (aka Blackb|rd on Freenode) -- Sent from aboard the Culture ship GSV Just Read The Instructions
