On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 23:25, Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: > Op zondag 08 januari 2012 23:26:38 schreef Pascal Terjan: >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 22:12, Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > i donno if it's me, but i noticed the following: >> > >> > [alien@localhost manaplus]$ /usr/sbin/urpmi >> > /tmp/manaplus-1.1.5.1-4.mga1.src.rpm >> > please use --buildrequires or --install-src, defaulting to >> > --buildrequires >> > >> > ... >> > >> > i noticed something was wrong when i clicked on the .src.rpm file on the >> > file browser and chose install the src.rpm file... >> > >> > I do believe it should default to --install-src ? >> >> Maybe it should depend if you are root > > the thing is that defaulting to --buildrequires is not intuitive, ok, it's > what you mostly use, but not what you expect if you're using urpmi. > > imho if you wanted the buildrequires; you'd exactly do that.
I think urpmi used to always install buildrequires and have no option. The old behaviour remained as default. > i imagine this also changes that in GUI and you're installing .src.rpm, it > should NOT ask for superuser credentials... because it's not needed and > definately not what you want. > > is this behavior changed recently, or was it always like this? It has always been like that as far as I remember
