On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:17:42AM +0100, Roland Illig wrote: > I asked myself the same question: Most packages can install their > executables with permission 555 and their data files with 444, so it > doesn't matter at all whom they belong to. I would even go as far as > leaving out the owner/group information from the binary package, except for > some special files like setuid/setgid binaries. You can't just leave them out -- tar requires them one way or the other :-) Joerg