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Re: [trinity-users] the state of sudo

From: Laurent Dard <f.couperin@...>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:33:59 +0100
Le 26/11/2011 19:31, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
>> I don't think sudo should be a dependency.
> 
> It only is a dependency on distributions that use sudo in their core
> packages such as Ubuntu.
> 
>>
>> Also, why does trinity have it's own sudo? I'd think it should be able to
>> find it in $PATH?
> 
> Look up the sudo RPATH "feature".  Basically if the application is not
> present in /usr/bin or a handful of other hardcoded directories sudo won't
> find it.

What are the trinity executables that really need to run with sudo?

(I have no /opt/trinity/sbin and apps in /opt/trinity/bin may be run with
sudo `which ...`.)

-- 
Laurent Dard