On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > > > 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things > > as the current GTK theme; OR > > > > No, the theme is a per-user setting, so it won't apply to you while you're > root. You could set the theme for the root user though. > > > 2) Is there a way to enable a regular user to run apt/dpkg/gnome-apt? > > > > No, installing packages requires root permissions. gnome-apt might let you > do package selections as a regular user eventually, but you'll always have > to be root to actually install. Maybe it's a reason to change it's behavour, maybe we could have it ask for a password and do sudo in the background or something, when installing. Just my 2 cents. > > Havoc > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
