Re: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

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On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:16 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> What's the difference whether the package got
> installed by root or via "su"?

No difference. The difference is that if you're loading a GUI to do it,
you're running 500,000 lines of code as root in an untrusted
environment.

Richard.


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