Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?

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Subject: Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:23:41 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 43FDDE1A.5010002@hogyros.de> (Simon Richter's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:08:58 +0100")
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Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> In short: May a package assume that package builds are performed with
>> root-like rights, and thus use non-world-writable directories for
>> caching purposes?
>
> Absolutely not. 

...because?

Because: 

,---- Policy 4.8
| The build target must not do anything that might require root privilege.
`----

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

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