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Old 15th April 2009
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
While we are on this subject, it should be clarified that while the kernel can be built with a non-root account which is a member of the wsrc group, building the userland still needs to be done as root.
This is true.

Most folks follow FAQ 5, but the definitive system build instructions are in the release(8) man page. There, it shows the kernel build being done by a normal user, but it shows the kernel install and the userland/xenocara builds being done with a blend of sudo and su.
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