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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as |
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> long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p" |
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You don't need to be a member of the portage group to do that. |
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[fred@shooty ~ 0]% groups |
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users |
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[fred@shooty ~ 0]% emerge -p bash |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[binary R ] app-shells/bash-4.3_p33-r2 |
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Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories |
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owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and |
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emerge --fetchonly. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Eat shit - 50 million flies can't be wrong |
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Use Microsoft . . . . . |
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