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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:22:13
Message-Id: 200308212022.12362.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root? by Rob Cakebread
1 On Thursday 21 August 2003 20:14, Rob Cakebread wrote:
2 > Does anyone think its a waste to add all the sudo stuff and run as regular
3 > user? Or just run the app as root?
4
5 i think ideally it would work like this:
6 sudo root to fetch (or maybe just portage ?)
7 sudo root to pkg_setup
8 run as portage to digest/unpack/compile/install
9 sudo root to qmerge
10 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root? Alec Berryman <alec@×××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root? Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>