From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OuSOx-0000ys-Gd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:54:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A358E0616; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA7EE0616 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321233A6 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:53:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:53:29 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=T7byes6YFodNLyDlQWCMzu6R2F4=; b=T/CRB72sy4UeDJWsQ2h5YxnIpuAaCQbRsAOO0xsSA5100YMDHaFOjCHBLK+WO46lFVKXpXR2KDd9/kxUrydPbkhs2aTxRCW1Xs2u+EwnAFxK72YtIgknOYn8jIPs43yW1wEnXFdruc6ZeHA9JN5My9oawy3LPXMNoM7O4j3QZQE= X-Sasl-enc: 8uTx02zOdtyfbYeg4lLtxRD1+xqpR9xnobjghocAgvKY 1284220408 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-069-134-182-167.nc.res.rr.com [69.134.182.167]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BFE0B4028F3 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:53:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ? From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1284198419.2992.20.camel@paska> References: <201009111024.31634.stephane@22decembre.eu> <1284198419.2992.20.camel@paska> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:53:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1284220407.138624.0.camel@paska> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9537b046-e001-4799-b403-79fdc8b45b33 X-Archives-Hash: 4151d676b0263f7879590f2fd00e3382 On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 05:46 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > In a perfect, tidy world we'd all do that. This world, however does > not > exist. Even portage, by default does configure and make as root > (albeit > in a sandbox so it is safe(r). I suppose one could compile the kernel sources as root but inside sandbox, though I've never tried that.