Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 16:00 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Sorry - very poor choice of wording, as a non-root user cannot
> 'install' 
> anything in the usual sense ...

A user can install whatever he wants in his $HOME. As an example, see
the firefox installations instructions:

"The following instructions will install Firefox into your home
directory, and only the current user will be able to run it.

     1. Download Firefox from the Firefox download page to your home
        directory.
     2. Open a Terminal and extract the contents of the downloaded file.
        cd ~
        tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2
     3. Close Firefox if it's open.
     4. To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder.
        ~/firefox/firefox"