A question about groups

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun Apr 5 15:47:46 UTC 2020


While I don't get such a notification when running

  sudo apt-get source mplayer

on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS, I wonder why using 'sudo' at all. It's a source,
nothing requires root privileges, since nothing actually gets installed.
I guess nobody wants to compile with root privileges. Compiling should
always be done without administrative privileges.

Just running

  apt-get source mplayer

works on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS and should do the job on other releases,
too.




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