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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400 |
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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:08:16AM -0400, German wrote |
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> > Question is in the subject line. |
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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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> [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv ufraw |
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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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> [ebuild R ] media-gfx/ufraw-0.20-r1 USE="-contrast -fits -gimp |
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> -gnome -gtk -openmp -timezone" 0 KiB |
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> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB |
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> However, the regular user is not allowed to actually emerge or unmerge |
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> anything. E.g... |
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> [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -v ufraw |
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> emerge: superuser access is required |
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> The idea is to allow the user to find out what he would have to do if |
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> he wanted to emerge/unmerge something. |
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Thanks for your answer. It now got clearer to me. |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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German <gentgerman@×××××.com> |