On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:38:24 -0600, Aaron W. LaFramboise
I don't think it is common for ANY sort of source distribution for files to be read-only. For example, are your compiler's header files read-only? Are the SDKs you normally use read-only? Is example code normally read-only?
Once they are INSTALLED, yes. But not in the unpacked distribution. Not sure how other folks around here do it, but I view the build tree as one thing (source code, configuration scripts, etc) and the installed tree (compiled libraries and header files) as another. The former is usually owned by a normal user and usually lives (briefly) in their home directory. The latter is owned by a privileged user (e.g. root) or set read-only to prevent accidental modification. -- Caleb Epstein caleb.epstein@gmail.com