On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > On Sun,03.May.09, 10:18:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > However, does the package management software (as aptitude does) store > > user preferences in the home directory? If, for example, you always run > > aptitude as yourself then give it the root password when prompted, it > > stores your preferences in your home directory. If you later run > > aptitude as root, those prefernces won't be active. Also, vis-versa. > > It's a bit more weird than this (I thought about filing a whishlist > bug): when you start aptitude as user it uses his preferences, but as > soon as you switch to root (via the menu items or when prompted) > aptitude also switches to root's preferences. Kinda' confusing.
There's a long and fairly tortured history behind which configuration aptitude uses when. Basically: if aptitude uses $HOME instead of changing to /root, then it'll end up sticking root-owned files inside the user's home directory, including files the user might not be able to read and/or delete. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
