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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:49:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mdvm10$bi9$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150313123344.55d5b12f@digimed.co.uk>

On 13/03/15 14:33, Neil Bothwick 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-13 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-13  9:08 [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not? German
2015-03-13  9:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-13 10:42 ` Walter Dnes
2015-03-13 10:51   ` German
2015-03-13 12:19   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-13 12:33   ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-03-13 21:49     ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2015-03-13 22:21       ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-03-14 12:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Andreas K. Huettel

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