On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:49:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> > 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.  
> 
> You can do fetchonly, but sync is not possible. You need root for that.

You're right, $PORTDIR itself is not group-writeable


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Neil Bothwick

Okay, I pulled the pin. Now what? Hey, where are you going?