Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
Vladimir Prus writes:
Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
The first two archives does not give write permissions to the user (for the unarchived files).
That's intentional. After all, normally you shouldn't be modifying anything in the distribution. Or should you?
No unix source package I ever downloaded had read-only files.
Could our long-time unix users confirm/negate this experience?
FWIW, Debian policy says the same: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.9
If I want to edit them, I'll edit them anyway.
Sure, if you know what you are doing. You are not supposed to be doing that, though, so that fact that you have to apply an extra effort here shouldn't matter.
Why I'm not supposed to do that? Say, I have a number of patches which are needed for my project (which I do have). I'd expect to be able to get tarball and apply the patches.
IOW, the point is that there are hardly any use cases for editing the files that came from the tarball that favor "easiness of editing", and there is a number of use cases in support of read-only status.
This all is pretty subjective, so I'd suggest to stick to existing practices. - Volodya