Bug 1565

Summary:	Use --disable-wrapping-as-root on nano binary for installer?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Allegretta <chrisa>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Allegretta 2002-04-05 17:39:19 UTC

Perhaps the --disable-wrapping-as-root flag should be used in configuring the
default nano binary that comes with the installer?  This way people wouldn't
have to constantly invoke nano with -w when they are editing files as root?  Or
would this confuse developers when they install nano from source and suddenly
(if they didn't specify the flag), nano started wrapping as root?

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-06 10:20:45 UTC

Sounds like a good idea.

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-11 21:49:26 UTC

Thanks for this.  We will have to adjust the installation documents for future
releases to just say "nano" instead of "nano -w"