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From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC, PATCH] user.eclass: gracefully return when unprivileged
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 01:02:26
Message-Id: 87a7z9yhre.fsf@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC, PATCH] user.eclass: gracefully return when unprivileged by Patrick McLean
1 Hi Patrick,
2
3 Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o> writes:
4
5 > I use portage as non-root all the time when developing and testing
6 > ebuilds, via the "ebuild" command.
7
8 The enewgroup and enewuser are used in pkg_* functions, as documented in
9 user.eclass _assert_pkg_ebuild_phase() function. They require root to
10 execute.
11
12 So no worries, your workflow will not be affected.
13
14 Yours,
15 Benda

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