Timeline for What is the need for `fakeroot` command in linux
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| Aug 12, 2014 at 10:08 | comment | added | pqnet |
fakeroot is a workaround tool for bugged packaging software: there is no reason you need to be root to create such packages, but since they don't allow you to specify file permissions in any other way than setting them directly into the filesystem beforehands you have no choice
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| Mar 20, 2011 at 9:01 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 24, 2011 at 12:58 | history | answered | Dysaster | CC BY-SA 2.5 |