On Thursday 21 August 2003 20:14, Rob Cakebread wrote: > Does anyone think its a waste to add all the sudo stuff and run as regular > user? Or just run the app as root? i think ideally it would work like this: sudo root to fetch (or maybe just portage ?) sudo root to pkg_setup run as portage to digest/unpack/compile/install sudo root to qmerge -mike