On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Ivan Raikov <[email protected]> wrote: > The implicit invocation of sudo violates the principle of least astonishment
You have to explicitly provide the -s switch, so I disagree. > I opposed the inclusion of the sudo mis-feature in chicken-setup, but > it nevertheless got included into chicken-install without much > discussion on the mailing list. ... The sudo mode is > bad idea, has no precedent in similar systems, such as PLT Scheme and > Hackage, and should not be used. Well, you don't actually have to -use- it, it's just there if you don't want to compile as root. So, what is the superior solution you would like implemented, based on the precedent in similar systems such as PLT Scheme? _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
