[PATCH] portmaster with SU_CMD

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:59:50 -0800 (PST)
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> This is very interesting stuff, but I don't see how it would be useful
> to a very wide audience. My feeling is that the vast majority of our
> users build and/or install ports as root, and I don't see any good
> reason for that not to be the default practice.
> 
> I'll review your patch more thoroughly when time allows (since we are
> in a freeze I can't add new features right now anyway) but I'm not
> inclined to add this unless there is a fairly substantial clamor for
> it.

Please do accept it if it qualifies.  I find very useful to build ports
without resorting to root, especially because sometimes I need to leave
my terminal with some ongoing compilation.  Yes, there are plenty of
additional tools like xlock, but not having a logged root console is
even better.

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez                   rnsanchez at wait4.org
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