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Re:The team that powers VLC by gjs278 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:40PM (#21624589)
your software arbitrarily restricts root usage. no other software does.
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Re:The team that powers VLC by michaelmrose on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:06AM (#21625621)
There are probably more people accidentally running vlc with root privileges than people who run a gui login as root.

It should be hard to do poorly thought out things.

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Re:The team that powers VLC by jbk on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:33AM (#21626380)
You have a wrapper if you know what you are doing, that is shipped besides the binary.
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