On 30.06.2010 14:29, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/06/10 22:08, Cedric Staniewski wrote: >> Dependency handling is a really useful feature, but I don't like the >> whole sudo/su thing. How about removing explicit support for sudo/su >> and leave it to the user to properly configure it for his needs? It >> could look similar to this: >> > > There is also a couple of patches from Andres P on 2010-06-19 that > implement a configuration option to allow the user to configure how to > escalate privileges for package installation (specifically patches 2/3 > and 3/3). I think that approach is better although I have not fully > reviewed those patches yet. > > Allan
You're right, seems I missed these. It's basically the same, but a bit more advanced. The only thing I don't like is that you cannot set PACMAN_AUTH from the environment.
