Re: native vs emulated configuration

On Vie 08 Jul 2011 15:27:17 Neil Williams escribió:
[snip]
> > By going step by step through the things that polystrap does, let me
> > list what would have to change in multistrap to make it build foreign
> 
> > rootfs without superuser priviliges:
> Multistrap already does all of this, the only thing for which some
> people might want emulation is configuration. That's device-specific.
> There's no reason to fold that into multistrap.

Then why is multistrap installed under /usr/sbin?

I think the main point here is installing without root privileges. We may 
disagree on the configuration part, and I understand that, but being able to 
run multistrap without root privileges is a nice and secure feature.

Regards, Lisandro.

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