On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:04 +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 06/15/08 05:46, Star Liu wrote: > >> <snip> except that it refuses root to use it. :) > > > > As well it should. Why are you running as root? > > > I disagree. I agree that in 99% of cases running normal UL applications > as root is a bad idea, but this isn't ubuntu. If I want to play with > [whatever] as root, then it should damn well let me. Odds are the decision to fail as root was made by upstream, not Debian. It would be a good thing if more programs that shouldn't be run as root (or Administrator) failed as root intentionally, esp. on Windows. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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