Hello Nico, On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:01 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > There are easily half a dozen reasons. The first one is that this is > where root runs their builds: if you leave it with write permission > for other users, > Second, if you open the permissions there, multiple users can step on > each other building similar packages at the same time, I only suggested chowning to a single trusted user, not opening that directory to all users. > The third reason one is that "/usr" is typically of modest size, and > leaving it open for RPM development can lead to many gigabytes of > inappropriate debris scattering it. I didn't mention this, but of course I use a separate partition for /usr/src in this setup. This way my home directory doesn't get cluttered with the remains of multiple builds that don't need backing up. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research