Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 00:21:37 CET schrieb Ian Zimmerman:
> On 2018-02-15 23:39, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > I'm trying to test my package by running "ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild
> > > install".  Naturally (for me) I do this as an unprivileged user, not
> > > as root.  It fails because at least some steps such as dobin need to
> > > give away ownership of the files being installed.  I tried to run
> > > the whole thing including compilation under fakeroot but that
> > > doesn't help.
> > 
> > That should usually "just work".
> > 
> > Did you use fakeroot directly (bad), or did you add "fakeroot" to
> > FEATURES in make.conf (good)?
> 
> The former.  I didn't know about the feature.  Is it safe to enable it
> for "production" runs as well?

Yes, it should be safe. At least I have it on all the time and never noticed 
any problems.

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Dr. Andreas K. Hüttel
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