Aleksej Saushev scripsit: > No, chicken ought not to use sudo, which is non-standard and unavailable > on all non-gnu platforms, unless you install it.
It does use it already if you give the -s switch. I'm just suggesting that it do a better job of using it. > As for me, I don't think that giving sudo privileges to chicken-install > is good idea, since it may do too much under the hood and you're not > even warned by password prompt. That's why you use chicken-install -s instead of sudo chicken-install; then the script asks for privileges only when it actually needs them. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Historians aren't constantly confronted with people who carry on self-confidently about the rule against adultery in the sixth amendment to the Declamation of Independence, as written by Benjamin Hamilton. Computer scientists aren't always having to correct people who make bold assertions about the value of Objectivist Programming, as examplified in the HCNL entities stored in Relaxational Databases. --Mark Liberman _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
