Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 17:55:08 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:01:07PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
- Do you alternate between running as root and running with "sudo
aptitude"? That causes confusion with the configuration file.

You keep saying this. No one has disagreed with you yet, so I'll assume
you're correct. Whyinhell isn't this an RC bug!?

I noticed this about a year ago. I just checked again and it seems to be
fixed for the version of aptitude which is in Sid right now (0.4.4-1).
It is probably also fixed for the version in Etch. I never considered it
a bug of aptitude but rather an unavoidable problem when using sudo with
applications that have their configuration files in /root. I also seem
to recall that there was a passage in the documentation which pointed
this out clearly. I cannot find any trace of that in the current version
of the docs. Looks like this was fixed a while ago. Sorry for the noise.
(It might still be an issue with Sarge's aptitude, though.)

--
Regards,
Florian


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