From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:30:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4738E212.2070809@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fh957t$3ad$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Steve Long wrote:
>>> Whatever. Requiring root for certain tasks has a long history:
>> On the kernel side.
>>
> Hmm, I'm sure I've used several apps which required root over the years.
They are flawed unless they are things like su/sudo/... . As a fine
example about why is this checking bad, see bug 186459 [1].
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186459
Cheers,
-jkt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 10:48 [gentoo-dev] eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI Donnie Berkholz
2007-11-08 10:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-08 12:07 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-11-08 12:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-08 18:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-08 18:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-11 9:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-11 11:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-11-11 13:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-12 9:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-12 13:30 ` Fernando J. Pereda
2007-11-12 23:30 ` Jan Kundrát [this message]
2007-11-13 15:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-13 16:13 ` Dan
2007-11-13 16:22 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-11-08 15:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luis Francisco Araujo
2007-11-13 19:12 ` Doug Klima
2007-11-13 19:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Markus Ullmann
2007-11-13 22:07 ` Doug Klima
2007-11-13 22:32 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-11-13 22:55 ` Rémi Cardona
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