OK I give the decision if it should be deleted or not to the AUR maintainers, and I will respect the decision if it is for deletion. (I have not been the maintainer of the previously deleted one, so I do not know the arguments there; as far as I know it had build issues.)
The package has been updated to 24.02.0 and kf6 and for me it did build and works. Issues with packaging should be reported in comments. I am not sure if I am the only one using it; I got out of date notification from someone recently which is a hint that it is not only me using it. When doing "root" stuff I usually directly do it from my always-open root shell (it is a single user machine anyway) and I do not use any sudo or so generally. Regards! On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:09:02 +0100, Marcell Meszaros <marcell.mesza...@runbox.eu> wrote: > >> Non-root Kate can do everything a root Kate would be able to do. > >> If you opened a file with read-only access, upon saving, it will > >> prompt you for root credentials. > > > >For me not. > > > >Maybe if used within a full-fledged KDE environment. > > > One does not need a full KDE desktop, only Kate's direct > dependencies, which include kio. > > Then the 'kio-admin' package can be installed and Kate will support > admin://. > > > >> If you want to open something for which your user doesn't have read > >> access, you need to install the 'kio-admin' package from the repo. > >> And then open that directory or file with the admin:// protocol. > >> > >> E.g., the following directory is only accessible > >> (readable/traversable) by root: > >> > >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ > >> > >> Open it by entering the following path in Kate's Open File dialog: > >> > >> admin:///etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ > > > >Wow. That is much manual overhead. > > > >I usually work at the terminal and type `kate <filename>`. > > > I don't think it's much overhead. Simply open the file with something > like: > > `kate admin://$(pwd)/filename` > > You can define an alias function for kate in your shell, and then you > can also use the same syntax you already do, `kate filename`. (Or you > can make different alias if you want to differentiate, like `kater` > for root.) > > Keeping a root-patched duplicate build on AUR really seems like an > overkill, and unnecessary. > > Also Arch Wiki mentions how it is an anti-pattern to run full GUI > applications as root, and lists all the alternative ways of achieving > the same goal without such a measure. > > You can run whatever software you want, but please don't keep this on > AUR. It seems you are the only person who uses it. > > Cheers, > Marcell / MarsSeed
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