From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:12:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B38ED19F-CC34-4031-8EE6-872B01D53370@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1954A216-291A-4873-8E81-335B739F38F8@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
On Tue, 11 February 2014, at 12:05 am, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 February 2014, at 11:57 pm, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> There is no subsequent requirement not to invoke emerge --sync as root.
>>
>> What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for
>> the emerge update process?
>
> To reduce the number of times the user has to enter an admin password.
Whups, please excuse me. I misunderstood.
I am still processing this thread, or at least I was when I hit reply 5 minutes ago.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-11 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 16:05 [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem Stroller
2014-02-10 16:55 ` Gleb Klochkov
2014-02-10 17:09 ` Stroller
2014-02-10 19:03 ` Walter Dnes
2014-02-10 19:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-10 23:10 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-10 23:57 ` Walter Dnes
2014-02-11 0:05 ` Stroller
2014-02-11 0:12 ` Stroller [this message]
2014-02-11 0:28 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-11 1:23 ` Walter Dnes
2014-02-11 2:11 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-11 2:50 ` Mike Gilbert
2014-02-11 5:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-11 5:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-11 11:07 ` Walter Dnes
2014-02-11 11:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-02-11 12:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-10 19:40 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-10 19:45 ` [gentoo-user] " eroen
2014-02-10 18:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2014-02-10 20:30 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-11 1:03 ` Kerin Millar
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