On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement
<[email protected]> wrote:
> @Dmitrijs: did you test it as root or a normal user ?
> A normal user won't be allowed to write to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d and a message 
> is printed to stderr. However it's working correctly as root but still 
> disappointing for a normal user since the setting is lost upon restart.
>
> An improved version would be to load/save from the system's setting if
> run as superuser and from user's preferences if run as a normal user.

Is it still worth it to implement this, given that unprivileged users
cannot install packages?

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