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From: Zac Slade <krakrjak@volumehost.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:11:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602181011.41387.krakrjak@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602181720.42592.info@maestroprogramador.com>

On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:20, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> 	Is [OT] marked because it has nothing to do with Gentoo. I mean when no
> ebuild is provided, someone is a new user (doesn't know what --prefix is),
> and by default with one shot "./configure ; make ; make install" it could
> be installed in home.
If this is what you want then the user must be in the portage group.  Now that 
user may be able to install software in / due to a lack of knowledge of the 
system.  However they can do ROOT=/home/user emerge program and that will 
install it into their home directory.  However if they have the power to do 
this, they have the power to accidentally install into /.  Pick your poison 
here.
-- 
Zac Slade

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-18 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-18 15:52 [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree? Rafael Fernández López
2006-02-18 15:44 ` Zac Slade
2006-02-18 16:16   ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-02-18 16:08     ` Zac Slade
2006-02-18 16:22     ` Rafael Bugajewski
2006-02-18 15:50 ` Devon Miller
2006-02-18 15:50 ` Rafael Bugajewski
2006-02-18 16:20   ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-02-18 16:11     ` Zac Slade [this message]
2006-02-21  4:16 ` David Mallwitz

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