<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="Osso Notes"> <title></title></head> <body> > On Thu, 08.07.10 13:42, Steve Herber (<a href="mailto:herber@thing.com">herber@thing.com</a>) wrote: > > > In gentoo, the only way I know to install packages is to run the > > emerge command as root.  The point of gentoo is to automate the > > download, untar, configure, compile, and install process.  I don't > > know of a way to do this > > without being root.  Does anyone know how to configure gentoo to split > > the install phase, which must be run as root, from the other phases > > that don't really need to be run as root?  Otherwise, the suggestion > > from Lennart is not useful for gentoo. > > If Gentoo is broken then please fix Gentoo. > > I really can't believe that building things as root is how things are > supposed to be done on Gentoo... > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" or anything like that allow you to build as a non root user with portage/emerge, or you can use paludis which does not build as root by default, on Gentoo </body> </html>