Re: [Chicken-janitors] #1113: chicken-install -s should not use sudo if it is not necessary

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#1113: chicken-install -s should not use sudo if it is not necessary
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  Reporter:  ckeen    |       Owner:                       
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                  
  Priority:  major    |   Milestone:  someday              
 Component:  unknown  |     Version:  4.8.x                
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  chicken-install, sudo
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Comment(by ecloud):

 That would be a nice feature. Or maybe chicken-install could automatically
 do that even without the -s parameter, only if current permissions are not
 enough. It could ask first, but sudo already involves asking first unless
 sudo was run recently.

 The issue is that a regular Linux user getting chicken from distro
 packages will have chicken in /usr/bin, but (s)he will not necessarily
 have all the eggs from distro packages. It's nice to be able to run
 chicken-install as a normal user. As an egg developer, I do chmod a+w
 /usr/lib/chicken/7 so that I can install my own eggs frequently. So I
 don't want to have a pattern of requiring root permission to install every
 egg, but there are a few that install tools in /usr/bin (chicken-doc and
 chicken-wrap for example), and that is the only case when I would like
 chicken-install to use sudo.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1113#comment:2>
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