No point in spawning a command and parsing its output when the UID
is already in the environment.
# make sure that library links are correct and up to date
cp -ar /etc/ld.so.conf* "$initdir"/etc
-ldconfig -r "$initdir" || [[ $(id -u) != "0" ]] && dinfo "ldconfig might need uid=0 (root) for chroot()"
+ldconfig -r "$initdir" || [[ $UID != "0" ]] && dinfo "ldconfig might need uid=0 (root) for chroot()"
[[ $beverbose = yes ]] && (du -c "$initdir" | sort -n)