Backstory (You can skip)
I am a bit more cautious these days when I am attempting to solve a what I presume to be a permissions limitation by running an application with sudo, ever since I ran this command:
sudo qtcreator
That completely borked my installation and caused many headaches for obvious reasons. Well, I am now playing around with a new (to me) Qt technology, qbs and I am encountering some errors which I think may be permissions related.
Before I risk many headaches, is it safe to run something like
sudo qbs setup-qt /usr/bin/qmake qt
without having to worry about breaking the integrity of qbs?
Running with sudo runs qbs as root, that's all. In particular, commands like qbs config or qbs setup-qt will alter the root user's settings, not your actual user's. And of course, the usual comments apply with regard to security: All commands run by qbs will run with admin rights. Personally, I don't see a reason to do this except when installing a project to a system location.