Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:39:34PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > I'm not going to second this proposal.
> >
> > I think that it misses the real issue in favor of a rhetorical position.
>
> I disagree. The rationale for this proposal was twofold:
>
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:07:37PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I put
> >
> > export X_AUTHORITY=/home/jgg/.Xauthority
> >
> > in my .xsession - this environment variable is not cleared when you 'su'
> > so you can use X programs as root without any problems. Maybe the de
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On 3 Jan 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote:
>
> > I'm using vim very often after becoming super-user with su. If vim was
> > linked against X, I would always get an error message on startup
> > because root isn't authorized to connect to the X server.
>
> I put
>
> export
On 3 Jan 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote:
> I'm using vim very often after becoming super-user with su. If vim was
> linked against X, I would always get an error message on startup
> because root isn't authorized to connect to the X server.
I put
export X_AUTHORITY=/home/jgg/.Xauthority
in my .x
> Several packages already flagrantly violate policy by shipping
> versions with and without X support; vim is one, gom is another.
I'm using vim very often after becoming super-user with su. If vim was
linked against X, I would always get an error message on startup
because root isn't au
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:39:34PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> I'm not going to second this proposal.
>
> I think that it misses the real issue in favor of a rhetorical position.
I disagree. The rationale for this proposal was twofold:
1) Several packages already flagrantly violate policy by sh
I'm not going to second this proposal.
I think that it misses the real issue in favor of a rhetorical position.
I think that the real reason a package should be built without X support
has to do with the nature of that X support. If the support is buggy, or
loses functionality which would be ava
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