On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:13 AM, John Cowan co...@ccil.org wrote:
Unfortunately, in order to build a Chicken extension foo that depends
on extension bar, bar must be built *and installed* before foo can
be built.
Is it possible to build the dependencies, leave them in a temporary folder,
Hello!
John Cowan co...@ccil.org writes:
Currently when you install an egg with many dependencies using the -s
(sudo) switch, you have to wait to enter your password until the first
time chicken-install invokes sudo. If, on detecting the -s switch,
chicken-install immediately ran sudo -v,
Aleksej Saushev scripsit:
No, chicken ought not to use sudo, which is non-standard and unavailable
on all non-gnu platforms, unless you install it.
It does use it already if you give the -s switch. I'm just suggesting that
it do a better job of using it.
As for me, I don't think that
I agree that chicken-install should not use sudo. The implicit
invocation of sudo violates the principle of least astonishment, and
presents a potential risk for users who do not understand the security
implications of this approach.
I opposed the inclusion of the sudo mis-feature in
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Ivan Raikov ivan.g.rai...@gmail.com wrote:
The implicit invocation of sudo violates the principle of least astonishment
You have to explicitly provide the -s switch, so I disagree.
I opposed the inclusion of the sudo mis-feature in chicken-setup, but
it
Ivan Raikov scripsit:
I agree that chicken-install should not use sudo. The implicit
invocation of sudo violates the principle of least astonishment, and
presents a potential risk for users who do not understand the security
implications of this approach.
I don't see that using a switch
