On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:08:16AM -0400, German wrote > > Question is in the subject line. > > If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as > long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p" > > [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv ufraw > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] media-gfx/ufraw-0.20-r1 USE="-contrast -fits -gimp > -gnome -gtk -openmp -timezone" 0 KiB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > > However, the regular user is not allowed to actually emerge or unmerge > anything. E.g... > > [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -v ufraw > emerge: superuser access is required > > > The idea is to allow the user to find out what he would have to do if > he wanted to emerge/unmerge something. Thanks for your answer. It now got clearer to me. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications > -- German <gentger...@gmail.com>
