Re: package managers problem
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:39:35 +0000
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
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>
> Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root.
> Plenty of people have been wasting their time trying to tell him not
> to do that for years now, and the last thing they need is bystanders
> handing him a different bore of firearm to aim at his foot.
>
I understand not running, say, VLC as root. But Synaptic? It allows you
to search, install and remove packages. Two of those things can't be
done without root permissions. I absolutely run it as root.
Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why?
What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal?
Paul
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