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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:59:30
Message-Id: 1168796801.17529.10.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Abusing RESTRICT={no,}userpriv (was [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT) by Stephen Bennett
1 On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 22:46 +0000, Stephen Bennett wrote:
2 > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:36:06 +0000
3 > Tristan Heaven <nyhm@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 00:53 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
6 > > They have to be able to read /usr/games/lib.
7 >
8 > In which case adding the portage user to the games group seems overall
9 > to be a better solution than requiring root privileges to build.
10
11 Sure, and it means getting every single user that merges games to change
12 their systems. It's possible, but something that would take a very long
13 time to accomplish.
14
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16 Chris Gianelloni
17 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
18 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
19 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
20 Gentoo Foundation

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