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diff --git a/chapter05/installasroot.xml b/chapter05/installasroot.xml index 0f070588d..d8207f440 100644 --- a/chapter05/installasroot.xml +++ b/chapter05/installasroot.xml @@ -2,21 +2,21 @@ <title>Install all software as user root</title> <para> -It's best if you login as root or su to root when installing these -files. That way you are assured that all files are owned by user root, -group root (and not owned by the userid of your non-root user) and if a +It's best if the user logins as root or su's to root when installing these +files. That way he is assured that all files are owned by user root, +group root (and not owned by the userid of the non-root user) and if a package wants to set special permissions it can do so without problems due to non-root access. </para> <para> -If you read the documentation that comes with Glibc, Gcc and other -packages they recommend not to compile the packages as user root. We +The documentation that comes with Glibc, Gcc and other +packages recommend not to compile the packages as user root. We feel it's safe to ignore that recommendation and compile as user root anyways. Hundreds of people using LFS have done so without any problems whatsoever and we haven't encountered any bugs in the compile processes that cause harm. So it's pretty safe (never can be 100% safe though, so -it's up to you what you end up doing). +it's up to the user what he ends up doing). </para> </sect1> |