root requirement

[0xacx]

root requirement

[Zeioth]

The AUR guidelines advise not to install packages in ~/local/bin.

People on #Archlinux IRC redirected me here, so the convention is actually to install always on /usr/bin. And it specifically says, packages should not modify the /home directory (where .local/bin is).

/usr/local/usr is reserved for programs not managed by the package manager. So it makes sense for install.sh, but not for the AUR package. So I'm gonna change this.

Also, in case you want to make a program available only for certain users, the right way is to do it through user permissions, not through ~/.local/bin, this directory is for user scripts only.

[Zeioth]

In other words, root is always required when you install a program.

[matbee-eth]

Yeah, I'll just fork and put it in npm or such

[0xacx]

@matbee-eth Thank you for the interest! The script is installed in /usr/local/bin/ which is the default directory to install scripts on mac. Copying a file in /usr directory, requires super user privileges, thus the required use of sudo for the script. You can install it manually in any other directory and it will work, as long as you add it to $PATH.