Joel VanderWerf
3/31/2008 4:56:00 AM
Chad Perrin wrote:
> The growing ubiquity of all administrative commands being explained with
> a "sudo" at the front, as if everyone in the world uses sudo for all
> administrative commands, is getting kinda old.
>
> 1. Some people use MS Windows.
>
> 2. Some people use MacOS X.
>
> 3. Some people use su or just login as root from the TTY console.
>
> The common thread here is that not everyone in the world is using Ubuntu.
4. Some people use ubuntu, but chown -R /usr/local to their own user.
(On my laptop, anyway!) Never have to "sudo gem".
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