Why do we need root permission to convert a deb package to arch package?

helixarch / debtap

A script for converting .deb packages into Arch Linux packages, focused on accuracy

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Why do we need root permission to convert a deb package to arch package? #52

Closed trusktr closed 4 years ago

trusktr commented 4 years ago

Is it so that it will download all the dependencies from the debian/ubuntu repos?

trusktr commented 4 years ago

Is there a way to skip this root step if we have a package that we don't need dependencies for?

helixarch commented 4 years ago

You DON'T need root permissions to convert a deb package, you only need root permissions to update debtap database, because it is stored in /car/cache/debtap which needs root permissions to write to. And even this step is only needed once to be run.