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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] unprivileged mode: generate PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 06:06:23 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$40dc7$cedc5f98$e78b7306$57912708@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 54604CEF.2090507@gentoo.org

Zac Medico posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:28:15 -0800 as excerpted:

> The "unprivileged mode" is similar to existing prefix support. The
> "unprivileged mode" is basically useless unless your target root is
> writable. Therefore, it's a sane assumption. It won't affect you unless
> you use the new "unprivileged mode". If you do happen to use it, then
> you will probably appreciate this patch.

I misinterpreted then, thinking unprivileged mode was simply running as a 
normal user.

Thanks.  (And good to see you back... with more help now. =:^)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-10  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-09 23:24 [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] unprivileged mode: generate PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR Zac Medico
2014-11-10  4:58 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Duncan
2014-11-10  5:28   ` Zac Medico
2014-11-10  6:06     ` Duncan [this message]
2014-11-10 11:09 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Alexander Berntsen
2014-11-10 18:21   ` Zac Medico
2014-11-10 20:32     ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-11-11  0:17       ` Zac Medico
2014-11-11  9:14         ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-11-15  5:19           ` Zac Medico
2014-11-15  7:21             ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] unprivileged mode: use first_existing helper func Zac Medico
2014-11-17  8:12               ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-11-10 20:48 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] unprivileged mode: generate PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR Zac Medico

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