Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:20:56 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@free.fr>: > Eric I see your point now. But stop me if I don't get the idea behind > your autoconfigurator : > Guessing the hardware configuration is done in order to ease the whole > configuration process. After polishing the configuration - no need for > root priviledge - the user start the build process that doesn't need > root priviledge either. > But when the user gets the resulting kernel how does (s)he avoid suing > to root in order to *install* it and its modules ? > I'm not familiar with people configuring and compiling kernels for > pleasure. They usually want to boot it... > > Your whole point here is not to avoid several su instead of 1?
That's actually *precisely* the point. The user should not have to go root for anything before the `make install' point. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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