From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E079767.30601@harpegolden.net> <87vcvmtc7z.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> <87liwgg3vv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y60elo83.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4E131B9C.4020806@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309900860 25525 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2011 21:21:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:21:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan Djärv Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 23:20:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QeD39-0006iz-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:20:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeD38-0000Ye-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCod-0004mH-Ds for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCob-0004Ay-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCob-0004Au-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeCoa-00035L-7F; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:05:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <4E131B9C.4020806@swipnet.se> (message from Jan Djärv on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:11:40 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141613 Archived-At: FWIW, I almost never run make install as root for Emacs. That susprises me -- could you explain why not? Anyway, the crucial case here is a multi-user machine where the person using Emacs does not understand system maintenance and did not install Emacs himself. This is the case where there is probably a functioning MTA plus users who use it without knowing what it is. In that case, `make install' was run as root. Thus, when `make install' is run not as root, it would be ok not to decide, and let Emacs ask the user whatr to do. The other way Emacs gets installed is from a package, via apt-get or something like it. That always gets done as root. Thus, we can assume this test is done running as root. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/