Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI

2007-11-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:43:49 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which is just as bad. > > > No, it's better for the reason given: it doesn't require login as > root. And it's still checking the wrong thing. > Use of ((EUID)) is also quicker. Quicker than what? It's quicker than the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI

2007-11-11 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:22:48 + > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > if [[ ${UID} -ne 0 ]]; then >> > >> > We've always told people not to do that. Capabilities required by >> > eselect modules should be tested by attempting to perform the >> > action, not by so