Re: small enhancement idea for 'make installworld' et al.

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     Hmm.  I didn't know the ports system could do that.
> 
>     But, the more I think about it, the less I like the idea of any
>     makefile automaticallying su to root for me!

OK.  Care to explain why you feel that way?  It's certainly no less safe
than running buildworld and buildkernel as root (which is what the
current setup encourages) and it's not like su doesn't still ask for the
root password.

-Chris