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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But I don't see why VLC shouldn't be able to run as root, if the user so desires.

For the reasons you described, I won't run VLC as root, and I don't think 99% of users would need to. But if someone wanted to do it, the software shouldn't stop them from doing it (beyond giving a warning and asking them to confirm).