On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:50:04AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Why would one want to use fakeroot? I don't have that package > installed and have not used it for building kernels. fakeroot allows you to easily build .debs (and other kinds of archives) containing files owned by root. There are other uses, but that's the relevant one here. It isn't set-id, so opens no security holes. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]