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Re: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Brion Vibber wrote:

>The install script currently is a little fascistic. ;) It assumes you
>have total control over your system:
>* shell access
>* command-line PHP interpreter
>* root access to the MySQL server
>* will be installing into a fresh database to be created, which will
>have nothing else in it

I had everything on the list EXCEPT root access to the MySQL server,
which as my revision demonstrated, really isn't necessary for the
install script to work. Wouldn't it be a good idea to make the
install script less fascistic?

--Sheldon