Quote Originally Posted by anda_skoa View Post
If an installer checks for root priviledges I take this as a sign that its author has very little clue about file system permissions and therefore it should defnitely not be allowed to execute with elevated permissions.
Maybe I was not clear enough -- what I meant was that if the installer can't work without additional privileges, then run it with sudo (it doesn't even have to be sudo root). If I ever suggested that the installer should force to be run with superuser privileges then that's not what I really meant -- it can check and warn the user but if he knows better, the installer can continue.