[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacscripts: Don't ask if sudo is installed; just check for it and inform the user

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Nov 17 21:13:15 EST 2013


On 18/11/13 04:26, Alexander Rødseth wrote:
> Great initiative. Yet another suggestion: "Run ${progname} with sudo
> or as root."

No.   If sudo is present, the program raises its privileges for a single
command.  That is different than running with sudo.

Allan



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