Mike Frysinger posted on Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:46:12 -0500 as excerpted: > if the package supports USE=caps, then it means the program is > intelligent enough to know what capabilities it needs and so it can drop > all of the rest before executing the main body of code.
> wouldn't it be nice if you could set the required capabilities on a > binary and drop the set*id entirely ? that's what USE=filecaps gets us. Very useful summary. Thanks. =:^) I had all the pieces from various reading, but they were more in a heap than assembled, and just the other day I was trying to assemble them into something coherent (triggered by this thread, IIRC), but discovered I still needed a bit of help. This was exactly what I needed for the accumulated information to all fall into place! Thanks again! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
