A question about groups

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 17:47:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>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.

PS:

FWIW those are the groups:

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ lsb_release -d; id
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
uid=1000(weremouse) gid=1000(weremouse) groups=1000(weremouse),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),117(sambashare)