Re: problems with "make install" directory permissions

[Paul Eggert]

On 7/27/20 2:24 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00042.html
>
> I can understand increasing permissions to allow +rx on installation
> directories, but why force 755, thus disallowing group writability?
> I've never understood this forcing of 755.

I expect it was by analogy with regular files, where are already forced to use 
the equivalent of umask 22 when being installed.

This could have been a decision I made years ago when modifying GNU 'install' - 
I've forgotten the details. (No doubt it was a good decision at the time. :-)