[arch-general] Non-root X on Arch Linux

[Daniel Micay]

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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