From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Does git belong in root's $PATH? Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:49:04 -0800 Message-ID: <43C02940.9040606@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: walt , Sam Ravnborg , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 07 21:49:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvL09-000646-SD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:49:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161088AbWAGUtS (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:49:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161096AbWAGUtS (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:49:18 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:27777 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161088AbWAGUtS (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:49:18 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k07Kn4or009015 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:49:04 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Maybe it would be best to remove the "vmlinux" dependency from "make > install" (so that "make install" will do exactly that: just install). I > think all the documentation already tells you to do a "make" and then a > "make install". > I would very much agree with this change; it's a nuisance that "make install" can't be cleanly run as root without leaving root turds in the build directory. (Speaking as the person who did the original "make install" patch about 12 years ago.) -hpa