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I agree. personally,  I much prefer this Idea over setuid to root.


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Thus spake Will Andrews (will@physics.purdue.edu):
> > How about sending an email message to "root" with this message?  It
solves
> > the problem of the message scrolling by during the installation...
> There is no precedent for this in ports.  And I'm not sure that
> some people want to see this sort of thing...
Make a precedent then :)
It's a special case, I think it's good.
However, you should send mail to the installing user (`id`).
Alex
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