[systemd-devel] Compiling in a sandbox

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 08.07.10 13:42, Steve Herber (herber at thing.com) 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

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.