[PATCH] portmaster with SU_CMD

Hans Lambermont hans at lambermont.dyndns.org
Mon Nov 12 06:43:36 PST 2007


Doug Barton 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.

I'd use it if it was available. (I even think this should be default
behaviour, but that's for another thread/bikeshed).

regards,
   Hans Lambermont


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