# from Austin Schutz
# on Tuesday 12 January 2010 10:08:
>Seems like it would be nice if the build system understood appropriate
>behavior for the root user and acted accordingly. That is: given
>superuser access privileges should be lowered by default during the
>build process, but elevated for install.
s/build system/CPAN client/
If the build system gets too smart, it interferes with the cpan client
and anyway: someone always thinks that whatever decision was the wrong
one (which it usually is because given two wrong choices...)
--Eric
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Turns out the optimal technique is to put it in reverse and gun it.
--Steven Squyres (on challenges in interplanetary robot navigation)
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