CentOS - Apr 2011 - Should svnserve run as root?

Now that the subversion package in CentOS is a usable version I've 
replaced a Collabnet package with it.  But, it seems odd that the 
svnserve process runs as root instead of having a unique user to own the 
files and run the process like most other daemons.  Did I miss something 
in the setup?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com