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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:23:08
Message-Id: 4FC52FE5.1070409@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default? by Mike Gilbert
1 On 05/29/12 15:58, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >> How about introducing e.g. FEATURES="nouserpriv", and make the current
4 >> userpriv behavior the default?
5 >>
6 >
7 > Portage currently defaults to running the build process as root. The
8 > entire point of this thread is that Zac wants to change the default to
9 > build as the portage user (FEATURES="userpriv" in make.globals).
10 >
11
12 Right, I was just offering a way to change the default behavior without
13 adding another value to the FEATURES variable, which seems to be
14 hasufell's objection.