... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) Cheers Ralf
On 04/17/2016 07:57 PM, »Q« wrote: > I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets me > a prompt to add --pretend to the options, e.g. > > $ emerge -a firefox > This action requires superuser access... > Would you like to add --pretend to options? [Yes/No] n > $ doh > Password: > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies /... done! > > ( 'doh' is an alias for 'sudo $(history -p \!\!)' ) > > I never want to add --pretend to the options; if I've used --ask, > I also meant to use sudo. I've looked through the documentation and > couldn't find a way to stop emerge from prompting me about --pretend, > so now I'm asking you if I've overlooked a way. > >
