On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:42:23PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Good idea. Seeing as your source tree can be anywhere you feel like putting > it. Kernel documentation last time I looked explicitly recommends you put it > in your home directory. > > /usr/src is more a matter of convention than anything else > It?' also matter of security avoiding the use of root account when possible.
Compiling things by root in my opinion is not so security wise, and to compile things in /usr/src you must be root. Regards Simone
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