On 18 Apr 2011, at 19:24, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 4/18/2011 2:15 PM, John B Brown wrote: >> However, claiming the sky will fall if you chose what you want in >> your computer is ridiculous! Recompile fixes a myriad of "Apple >> knows best" crap. > > And also sets the stage for future problems. > >> Or did you invest in that expensive CS degree to stop thinking? > > This seems unnecessarily combative. > > First understand the problem, understand the consequences of your > solution, then decide whether to try applying the fix. That seems to be > good counsel here. > > I have no horse in the race: whether someone else wants to replace > Apple's sudo with their own makes not a whit of difference in my life. > And so, I'll refrain from giving advice except to say that yes, > replacing Apple-provided binaries with your own can cause major problems > with upgrades. The risk of this happening must be weighed against the > inconvenience of using Apple's sudo. If the risk calculation is in > favour of replacing sudo, then replace it: otherwise, don't. > > I don't understand what's so difficult.
Why not just do sudo port install sudo and get the 1.7.4p2 version as (presumably) /opt/local/bin/sudo which would be run preferentially to /usr/bin/sudo assuming your path is set up the usual way? Having said that, Apple's sudo version works fine for me. Mark _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
