[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: 2.1.1 under 10.1 [was Python package maker for OS X Installer.app]

[Jack Jansen]

> Hi Jack,
> 
> 	My naive guess is that folks try "make install", and when that 
> fails (since "normal" users aren't allowed to create directories in the 
> default area: /usr/local/...) they decide to run the install as root so 
> that it will be allowed. Isn't this what most folks do on most unixish 
> systems anyway? Is there some security problem with this?

Bingo! I knew that I knew why people did this, but I had forgotten. I'll add a 
note to the README that people just do the "sudo mkdir/sudo chown" and then a 
plain make install.
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