[mythtv-users] new YouTube plugin for MythTV‏

lanas lanas at securenet.net
Fri Nov 16 02:30:17 UTC 2007


On Monday, 12 Nov 2007 22:06:46 +0000,
Justin Hornsby <justin at mythtvthemes.co.uk> wrote :

> In the sourcecode there are calls to stuff like 'sudo ffmpeg' and
> 'sudo wget'.  Not generally a good idea to have a user program acting
> rooty, is it?  Or am I just being picky?

One has to wonder why in the world would *non-Windows* developers use
root for this purpose.  They must have a deep magical knowledge that I
have not yet reached.  Or that I threw away a long time ago ;-)

Al


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