From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A8A138CBD for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:34:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B2C8E0950; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80D2E08F5 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6E0FA26579 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:33:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:33:44 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not? Message-ID: <20150313123344.55d5b12f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150313104208.GA11261@waltdnes.org> References: <20150313050816.9b67c90d50d7cdf5a553d81e@gmail.com> <20150313104208.GA11261@waltdnes.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-75-g9971ef (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/jPqNb9I/SAGkMHidgDqv1Vo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 05b8e8d8-116a-4334-97a1-66a541efa93d X-Archives-Hash: 261d3f90e23887bcf56da90dd2b4ff9a --Sig_/jPqNb9I/SAGkMHidgDqv1Vo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as > long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p" You don't need to be a member of the portage group to do that. [fred@shooty ~ 0]% groups users [fred@shooty ~ 0]% emerge -p bash These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [binary R ] app-shells/bash-4.3_p33-r2=20 Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and emerge --fetchonly. --=20 Neil Bothwick Eat shit - 50 million flies can't be wrong Use Microsoft . . . . . --Sig_/jPqNb9I/SAGkMHidgDqv1Vo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUC2S0ACgkQum4al0N1GQPUqACeI9vWza+vzajX1p5cupLJ1Jpk OFMAniMjZD/AWBE6dIloIw/4CS8C4dD4 =CHrp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/jPqNb9I/SAGkMHidgDqv1Vo--