Bug#550008: Cannot run vlc as root. It's my choice to.
Miguel Perez
wiseman1024 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 22:54:59 UTC 2009
Package: vlc
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: important
vlc has an artificial check to disallow it from being ran as root.
However, it's my choice to do so. I fully understand what I'm doing.
No, you don't need to lecture me about the way I use my operating system
(I appreciate the willingness to help, but I already know and I've
already decided I wanted to do otherwise for a number of reasons).
GNU/Linux is about choice, not about being babysitted and told what I
want and don't want to do. If I wanted that, I'd be using Windows.
Please respect our right to decide and do not artificially limit
software.
If you absolutely must prevent most from running vlc as root (possibly
accidentally), you could make it check for the existence of some file
such as /root/.i-mean-business or some configuration option in a VLC
configuration file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages vlc depends on:
ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library
ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.10.9-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.6-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libqtcore4 4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.2-2 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.7-2 image loading library for Simple D
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-5 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtar 1.2.11-6 C library for manipulating tar arc
ii libvlccore2 1.0.2-1 base library for VLC and its modul
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxv1 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii ttf-dejavu-core 2.30-1 Vera font family derivate with add
ii vlc-nox 1.0.2-1 multimedia player and streamer (wi
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
vlc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages vlc suggests:
pn mozilla-plugin-vlc <none> (no description available)
pn videolan-doc <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on:
ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-11 library for decoding ATSC A/52 str
ii libasound2 1.0.21a-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libass4 0.9.7-3 library for SSA/ASS subtitles rend
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-1 Avahi common library
ii libavcodec52 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii libavformat52 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 ffmpeg file format library
ii libavutil49 4:0.5+svn20090706-2+b1 ffmpeg utility library
ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcaca0 0.99.beta16-2 colour ASCII art library
ii libcdio10 0.81-4 library to read and control CD-ROM
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdca0 0.0.5-3 decoding library for DTS Coherent
ii libdvbpsi5 0.1.6-1 library for MPEG TS and DVB PSI ta
ii libdvdnav4 4.1.3-5 DVD navigation library
ii libdvdread4 4.1.3-7 library for reading DVDs
ii libebml0 0.7.7-3.1 access library for the EBML format
ii libfaad2 2.7-2 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder -
ii libflac8 1.2.1-2+b1 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.10.9-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.4-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgnutls26 2.8.4-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error values an
ii libhal1 0.5.13-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii liblircclient0 0.8.3-5 infra-red remote control support -
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.4-3 Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii libmad0 0.15.1b-4 MPEG audio decoder library
ii libmatroska0 0.8.1-1.1 extensible open standard audio/vid
ii libmodplug0c2 1:0.8.7-1 shared libraries for mod music bas
ii libmpcdec3 1:1.2.2-2.1 Musepack (MPC) format library
ii libmpeg2-4 0.4.1-3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder libr
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libogg0 1.1.4~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.39-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpostproc51 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 postproc shared libraries
ii libschroedinger-1 1.0.8-2 library for encoding/decoding of D
ii libshout3 2.2.2-5+b1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming
ii libsmbclient 2:3.4.2-1 shared library for communication w
ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libswscale0 5:0.5+svn20091001-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii libsysfs2 2.1.0-6 interface library to sysfs
ii libtag1c2a 1.6-3 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii libtheora0 1.1.1-1 The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii libtwolame0 0.3.12-1 MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar
ii libv4l-0 0.6.1-1 Collection of video4linux support
ii libvcdinfo0 0.7.23-4+b2 library to extract information fro
ii libvlc2 1.0.2-1 multimedia player and streamer lib
ii libvlccore2 1.0.2-1 base library for VLC and its modul
ii libvorbis0a 1.2.3-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.3-2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libxml2 2.7.5.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages libvlc2 depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libvlccore2 1.0.2-1 base library for VLC and its modul
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