[systemd-devel] Compiling in a sandbox

[Marc-Antoine Perennou]

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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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
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