B1;1704;0cOn Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 01:44:59AM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 21:40 +0100, Mark wrote: > > 3. Oke, mplayer is done installing now and now it asks me to run it.. > > why? > > I've seen this with one package (it ran after installation), and it's a > really incredibly dumb idea! > > Why? Because on Linux, you install as root (you have to), and then the > package is getting run as the root user. Apart from the security > implications of that, you don't normaly run the application as root > (unless you practice bad computing habits), so whatever you do now will > not apply when you later on run it as yourself. You'll end up painting > users into the run-as-root corner, like Windows does. > > Even if you could intelligently, post installation, switch away from > root back to the user who started installing things, do you really want > thirty recently installed programs run to set them up? I don't! And > what about running them for all of the the other users on the system. > > Which dimwit implemented that sort of behaviour? Can we please carry on the conversation without personal insults? Please, folks, a modicum of civility -- let's keep in mind that there are flesh-and-blood people who write this software, and we all get to use it for free. Criticism is fine, invective is not. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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