small enhancement idea for 'make installworld' et al.

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 13:06:51 -0700, Chris Pressey wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:37:51 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>     Hmm.  I didn't know the ports system could do that.
>> 
>>     But, the more I think about it, the less I like the idea of any
>>     makefile automaticallying su to root for me!
> 
> OK.  Care to explain why you feel that way?

It puzzled me too. I think, it's more of correct way to request for
the password rather than give the failure because of error permission.

Cheers,
Mezz

> It's certainly no less safe than running buildworld and buildkernel as
> root (which is what the current setup encourages) and it's not like su
> doesn't still ask for the root password.
> 
> -Chris