Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Moving to -devel. ] > > Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > It's written everywhere: DON'T RUN MAN AS ROOT!
Having no idea where it moved from or what the context was I'll blithely wade in with an opinion: Just because the bug is documented doesn't mean it's not a bug. There's really no excuse for programs that don't work as root. > Debian's man package is, at the very least, guilty of violating the > principle of least suprise. When I type "man mount", I expect to see a > man page. Sometimes you _have_no_choice_ but to run it as root, and it so it > should always work in those cases. -- greg