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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@free.fr>:
> Eric I see your point now. But stop me if I don't get the idea behind 
> your autoconfigurator :
> Guessing the hardware configuration is done in order to ease the whole 
> configuration process. After polishing the configuration - no need for 
> root priviledge - the user start the build process that doesn't need 
> root priviledge either.
> But when the user gets the resulting kernel how does (s)he avoid suing 
> to root in order to *install* it and its modules ?
> I'm not familiar with people configuring and compiling kernels for 
> pleasure. They usually want to boot it...
> 
> Your whole point here is not to avoid several su instead of 1?

That's actually *precisely* the point.  The user should not have to 
go root for anything before the `make install' point.
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