any reason why system-config-kickstart requires root?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Chris Lumens wrote:

>> I can't think of one, and running
>>
>> /usr/share/system-config-kickstart/system-config-kickstart.py
>>
>> manually seems to work just fine (I saved my kickstart file without incident).
>>
>> Should I file a bug?
>
> It requires root because it uses pirut for the package selection screen,
> and that requires root because it uses yum, which may need to update the
> cache files in /var/cache/yum.  It's working as intended.

Yum supports per-user private cache, that's what most yum-utils use for 
non-root usage. Look for getCacheDir() usage in yum-utils how to make use 
of it.

 	- Panu -