Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 09:33, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:23:41AM -0400, Maurice Heskett wrote: On 6/21/23 08:33, Andy Smith wrote: I'm sure there are other advanced editors that can do the same. Maybe geany can; I'm not familiar with it. You are missing out on one of linux's

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 08:33, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 gene heskett wrote: My fav editor, geany is also dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as me. So there is a common problem.

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 07:58, Joe wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 gene heskett wrote: My fav editor, geany is also dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as me. So there is a common problem. Well, you could do it the right way: edit as you with geany in a work

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 03:01, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:24 AM Maurice Heskett wrote: On 6/20/23 22:17, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send requests

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 01:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:17 PM wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands with

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/20/23 22:17, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why? What's special about GUI apps versus those