Debian Developers - Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?

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Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?

Thomas Viehmann

2006-02-26, 9:50 am

Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Here's a thought: how hard would it be to make TeX fall back to caching in a
> directory under the user's home directory (maybe $HOME/.fonts/texmf or so) if
> it can't write to /var/cache/fonts? pbuilder does have $HOME set up to work
> all right with BUILDUSER{ID,NAME}.
Well, some people think that writing outside the build-dir is a FTBFS
bug as well[1].

Kind regards

T.

1. http://bugs.debian.org/336014
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