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 1LmS8z-0004Up-Ds for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:23:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 081A3E051E; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81D6E051E for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:23:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d11so1023and.30 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=XRwMZHxbg+3gk0fl4xQbbq+hyXPaorUvCF4PRb4K+do=; b=MinzDVYwbQLgdgiVXp0dYndZsQgm72TDnirjQsxYEbaWce18SVywuM++u7BXTW8gGZ 2+fQ+NDLVXX0+hgSHi0aWgN2anwvyNhd7w9fL3nA83qY22GiFQk2BMLJtY9XAcmTp0Ou QmuyD2GthYo81gy4rxDVx2o71EAHAJIlmFqZ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=td1d/YD2gSBe4i/FLOoRIJgy2gwYZZal6zEhrnJ810I4U9tDfsDE521iTk0IKJYYMW B3jj873kUzZNnlhXeZ0sCJBKwqburBxYJXiiEw3etIRitLl481OKQl0oKyIM91MsIWzg YurUWRa43YzJ267HmSXwPPZXDSW9yal1bwPzI= Received: by 10.100.125.9 with SMTP id x9mr9162256anc.65.1237983819371; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d22sm2972355and.47.2009.03.25.05.23.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:23:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:22:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.28-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.2.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <49C952AE.40904@logiquefloue.org> <200903250859.31339.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49CA1D96.9060207@logiquefloue.org> In-Reply-To: <49CA1D96.9060207@logiquefloue.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903251422.09530.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5502c0b9-0d8a-414d-89a4-478dd6750c44 X-Archives-Hash: a38dccd7ee4b547747cdfef9d1f6f18f On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote: > > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or > > portage and it's in your home directory owned by you. > > > > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 mar 24 20:19 home > > looks owned by root. /home is not your home directory. Out of the box emerge runs as the portage user, which will not have write permission to your home directory unless you modify the ownership/permissions. But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com