Re: Root can't run X programs

2003-04-29 Thread David Krider
Cameron Hutchison wrote: The next bit of juju is to set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to ~/.Xauthority, where is the user that started the xserver. This is great. What about taking it to the next level? What I mean is that I had been thinking about actually extracting the cookie from the s

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-27 Thread David Krider
Roland Mas wrote: *Supposing* I were agreeing with you on the existence of a problem, I would probably be of the opinion classified as case 3 above. The reason I could identify for the problem would be that people prefer bitching and complaining about testing being late and stable being old, rat

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-26 Thread David Krider
Björn Stenberg wrote: An example: Before gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.2 went in the other day, no less than 607 packages were stuck in unstable waiting for them. How many of those packages actually required gcc 3 to compile and run? I'd guess not many. Well, hey, if gcc 3.3 has made it into stable, this is bi

pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-25 Thread David Krider
So I'm trying out Debian on the desktop. I'm a long-time Red Hat user who's given up on them because of their product strategy. I bought SuSE 8.2, and it's been great. I'm saying these things not to start a flamewar, but just to tell where I'm coming from. I'm just saying that I expect a lot of pol