[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Revert "paccache: avoid subshell in calling runcmd"

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri May 17 20:43:27 EDT 2013


On 15/05/13 23:58, Dave Reisner wrote:
> su is terribad. In addition to reverting, this also removes support for
> privilege escalation via su. If you want to use paccache as root and
> fail to comprehend how much better sudo is than su, then run paccache
> directly via su.
> 
> Fixes FS#35173.
> 
> This reverts commit 597286eb258f841dfc00f65474138fc6192f0092.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner at archlinux.org>

Ack -> maint



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