emacs installs a lot of 777 directories

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:31:21 +0100, Eirik Øverby <ltning at anduin.net> wrote:
> On 16. mars. 2009, at 00.50, freebsd001 at pc.jgr.de wrote:
>> Dear Giorgos,
>> thank you for coming back to the emacs issue. I deinstalled
>> emacs by means of pkg_delete -v -d, deleted by hand
>> /usr/local/share/emacs to make sure that nothing is left,
>> logged in as user "nutzer", and did su to root:
>>
>>> id
>> uid=1006(nutzer) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),0(wheel)
>>> su
>> Password:
>
> Try 'su -' instead of 'su'.
> There might be some environment issues; I've seen similar behavior
> when making that mistake myself.

This is correct.  `su -' should be preferred when installing stuff :)