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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not?
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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.