I wonder if we should do something to actively prevent building ports as root. Is there a valid reason for doing this any more? Should we just exit with an error if someone tries it?
On 12 September 2016 16:33:27 Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 09:28:30AM -0600, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: ports Changes by: j...@cvs.openbsd.org 2016/09/12 09:28:30 Modified files: net/libnice : Makefile net/avahi : Makefile textproc/gtkspell3: Makefile Log message: Set PORTHOME to avoid junk directories in / from Solene Rapenne.For the record, I'm not a fan of this. First it encourages people to build as root. Second building things will always creates shits on your system, be it under / or somewhere else. -- Antoine
