Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:09:23
Message-Id: 20130102124938.20e21c7a@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:40:29 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2
3 > > * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE="suid"
4 > > has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it,
5 > > you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other
6 > > X login managers will still work.
7 >
8 > what do we learn?
9 > always use -v
10
11 That makes it harder to spot the changes and the new falgs are buried in
12 the noise of the unchanged ones.
13
14 > always read the output
15 > always check the meaning of changed/added flags.
16
17 And don't use USE="-*" unless you want to spend time fixing things like
18 this.
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21 --
22 Neil Bothwick
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24 WinErr 012: Window closed - Do not look inside

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