On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:17:06 +0000, Mick wrote: > Right, I haven't changed them on this installation either and emerge > FEATURES include > > '... userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync'. > > With 'userpriv' portage is meant to drop privileges to the owner of the > gentoo repo directory, but if the directory is owned by root to start > with I am not clear how userpriv is meant to work.
According to the make.conf man page, userpriv will "Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as portage:portage without a sandbox" -- Neil Bothwick Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
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