On 06/04/14 08:53 PM, Mario Rugiero wrote: > I'd expect the usual pioneering of Arch for giving the option. I guess it's > up to the maintainers, but I don't see what could delay it in comparison to > Fedora. Is any special building flag needed that could get in the way? In order for a non-setuid binary to be a useful improvements, the maintainers need to actually get rid of the setuid binary by splitting it out and making it a dependency of packages like nvidia. A Red Hat developer proposed a patch adding a wrapper script for X so it can make use of a setuid binary if and only if the driver requires it - making it a fully transparent feature handled by the package manager via dependencies.
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