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From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:36:28
Message-Id: 4738E212.2070809@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI by Steve Long
1 Steve Long wrote:
2 >>> Whatever. Requiring root for certain tasks has a long history:
3 >> On the kernel side.
4 >>
5 > Hmm, I'm sure I've used several apps which required root over the years.
6
7 They are flawed unless they are things like su/sudo/... . As a fine
8 example about why is this checking bad, see bug 186459 [1].
9
10 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186459
11
12 Cheers,
13 -jkt
14
15 --
16 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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