[Bug 220888] Review Request: fakeroot - Gives a fake root environment

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Summary: Review Request: fakeroot - Gives a fake root environment


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220888





------- Additional Comments From Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net  2007-01-05 00:46 EST -------
Please, let me restate that this no conflict with the packaging guidelines. The
"preferred" can be at best interpreted as a SHOULD requirement, so by definition
it is nothing to block on, and it is also nothing that "slips" QA in any way.

I would even consider the demythifying of the needed `id -un` urban legend as an
improvent in package quality even if it jeopardizes the use-case where several
users build exactly the same package at the same time, which probably happened
already twice since the passing of the millenium (and I mean the first one ;).
> > > how hard is it, really, to copy and paste the
> > > "BuildRoot: ..." line from the Guidelines wiki page? ^_^)
> > Rephrasing the above: How hard is it, really, to simply let the current
> > BuildRoot pass?
> It is very difficult for me

Well, that makes two stubborn packagers out of us, doesn't it? Anyway I need to
stay hard on this as a long-time educational measure. id -un only landed in
there due to early misunderstanding that "root" didn't mean a user but a
build-"root" and the id -un obfusaction serves little to nothing.

> > Anyway I think fakeroot is a useful package and it will probably find
> > another reviewer. Still thanks for trying to do the review in the first
> > place.

> As do I. I hope your submission succeeds and wish you well. Hopefully
> this disagreement between us does not become unnecessary animosity. :]

Well, my Peter Voodo doll is rather pinned up right now, but no, there are no
hard feelings for someone expressing his sincere opinion, even if it's
diametrical opposite to mine. Now let me fire up that doll. ;)

P.S. if you feel this discussion needs to be carried on, please let's leave
bugzilla for the review and discuss this preferably on fedora-packaging or any
other list, we abused bugzilla for discussing the packaging guidelines.

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