Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10737] Wireshark should be installing icons as part of "ma
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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:50:52 +0000

Comment # 9 on bug 10737 from 
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #8)
> If the process of building a package requires a "make install", then either
> 
>     1) the "make install" process, when done as part of the process of
> building a package, needs to be tweaked in order to allow it to be done as a
> non-root user (e.g., installing under /tmp)

I guess we could check if $(DESTDIR) is set to something to determine if we're
really installing or just making a package.  (If just ignoring the errors isn't
sufficient.)

> or
> 
>     2) you don't get to make packages as yourself.

... which is sufficiently evil as to be a non-starter.  (The nice--really
nice--thing about making packages as a non-root user, from my perspective
anyway, is that I can be sure I'm not going to hose up the build server if the
software's "make install" has a bug. And I'm pretty sure a lot of package
builders--Redhat comes to mind--strictly prohibit building packages as root for
that reason; that and they've got many thousands of packages they need to
build.)

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