Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> 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. That gives no protection, really. If I unintentionally remove some files, I can just reinstall. If I want to edit them, I'll edit them anyway. Write protection will just get in the way. BTW, just like it gets in the way with Boost CVS -- somehow all files are read only and I constantly have to change permissions or tell Emacs to override them.
Personally I like that. I don't tell Emacs to override them, I use `C-x v v' to "cvs edit" them. There are CVS options to control this. In fact, unless you have CVSREAD set in your environment, CVS checks out writable files. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com