What to do with potential workflow-changing / breaking changes?

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Mon Feb 20 20:46:47 GMT 2017


Am 2017-02-20 20:32, schrieb Luca Beltrame:
>> The change in [1] is a security consideration based on a bug report we
> 
> This is interesting. Can you share the bug number?

following the link from your mail gives me: 376526 ;-)

> 
>> currently on Wayland. Out of the box it is not possible to run a gui 
>> app
>> as root on Wayland, due to the socket being in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
> 
> Did you write that in the blog post too? I skimmed through that and 
> couldn't
> find it when I read it earlier.

Not in that detail. I mentioned "And it [sudoedit solution] will also 
work on Wayland". Which means exactly that. I didn't want to go into too 
much detail here to prevent the trolls to find something new to bitch 
about Wayland.

Cheers
Martin



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