On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:16:19PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > PS: I wanted to use NEED_ROOT, like FreeBSD, but espie@ has insisted > that we be different.
Gnagnagna! :) NEED_ROOT is highly ambiguous. What the fuck does it mean exactly ? FAKE_AS_ROOT is explicit, at least. I'm sorry, but the FreeBSD name *sucks big hairy balls*. A few things we discussed. - I think that at least for some ports, it might be simpler to prepare things with FAKE_AS_ROOT=Yes, so that the fake area is filled up correctly, with things in the right place and the right mode ? so I don't expect to get rid of this entirely... the goal being that a completely polished port should *not* require FAKE_AS_ROOT=Yes. - I do think that it might make some sense to actually be able to replace install/chown and friends with our own scripts that would log things... That at least is trivial to do, by putting the right scripts under WRKDIR/bin...
