Re: Bug#796973: ITP: pseudo -- advanced tool for simulating superuser privileges

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

On 26/08/15 20:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> Pseudo has a lot of similarities to fakeroot but is a new implementation
>> that improves on the problems seen using fakeroot. Pseudo is now
>> extensively used by Poky as a replacement to fakeroot but can also be
>> used standalone in many other use cases.

> Are there any drawbacks when compared to use of fakeroot?  If there are
> none, shouldn't it supersed fakeroot ?

I don't yet know, I will test it once I have the package ready. What I
know is that Yocto uses it quite successfully for purposes similar to ours.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew