Randy McMurchy wrote:
Again, hogwash. No admin worth a shit would ever do this.
No need for foul language.
Hand-holding isn't teaching. Making them understand how and why things can go wrong, and how to prevent it, is what needs to be taught. The root user is powerful. Users need to be taught this. Using unprivileged users to do installations so that they don't have to worry about root screwing up isn't learning. At least in my opinion.
This isn't hand-holding. Again go read the hint before you proclaim what it is and what it isn't.
And once again, that was my entire purpose in making this suggestion. There are a lot of good principles this hint teaches which LFS and BLFS doesn't. (If this kind of stuff is a given to any admin worth anything, BLFS shouldn't have to tell a user to build as a non-root and install as root.)
In fact, current LFS and BLFS, IMHO, does more hand-holding than this hint does.
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