From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FAUr6-0002RD-Ot for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:22:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1IGL6Xq021982; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:21:06 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1IGBi9f006582 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:11:44 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D13CCAA for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12859-02 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ath600 (ip70-178-169-79.ks.ks.cox.net [70.178.169.79]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923AACCA6 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:11:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Zac Slade 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602181652.53773.info@maestroprogramador.com> <200602181650.57410.rb@bugajewski.de> <200602181720.42592.info@maestroprogramador.com> In-Reply-To: <200602181720.42592.info@maestroprogramador.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602181011.41387.krakrjak@volumehost.net> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1IGBi9f006582 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k1IGL6Y9021982 X-Archives-Salt: d647b7c8-d78b-4a42-98c1-0c8d34118203 X-Archives-Hash: bae8c18af925cdba700cd3dd9e8cd803 On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:20, Rafael Fern=E1ndez L=F3pez wrote: > Is [OT] marked because it has nothing to do with Gentoo. I mean when n= o > ebuild is provided, someone is a new user (doesn't know what --prefix i= s), > and by default with one shot "./configure ; make ; make install" it cou= ld > be installed in home. If this is what you want then the user must be in the portage group. Now= that=20 user may be able to install software in / due to a lack of knowledge of t= he=20 system. However they can do ROOT=3D/home/user emerge program and that wi= ll=20 install it into their home directory. However if they have the power to = do=20 this, they have the power to accidentally install into /. Pick your pois= on=20 here. --=20 Zac Slade --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list