On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2007/5/8, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>: > > > >On Tue, 8 May 2007 12:12:22 +0200 > >"Raffaele Morelli" <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >[snip] > > > >> Me too compile kernels as root and really would like to know why it is > >> considered such a bad habit. > > > >It's generally considered a bad idea to do anything as root unless it's > >absolutely necessary. I suppose it's one of those rules that's meant to > >be broken if you know what you're doing, but it's kind of a slippery > >slope; it's likely that sooner or later you'll do something that you'd > >regret less if you hadn't done it as root :). > > > That's ok, I follow the general (healthy) rule and do not log as root if > unnecessary, but for kernel (and program) compile I can not picture > 'make-kpkg' or 'configure && make' doing something regrettable. usually you only need root for make-install as that's what writes to various root-writable-only directories. A
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