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* [gentoo-dev] layman and filesystem permissions
@ 2010-07-08 18:51 Domen Kožar
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From: Domen Kožar @ 2010-07-08 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw
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As some of developers noticed, current gpypi2[0] implementation (tool
for querying Python Package Index to create ebuilds) needs root
permissions for two reasons:

- to write ebuild in overlay managed by layman
- to unpack source for setup.py introspection with "ebuild foobar
unpack"

It just seems wrong for such a tool for the need of root permissions, so
I'm asking what are the options to drop layman to root:portage or
something similar.

Discussion about the approach is open, I'm not *really* sure what would
be the proper way.


Cheers, Domen


#0 http://docs.fubar.si/gpypi2/

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