On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote: > > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or > > portage and it's in your home directory owned by you. > > > > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 mar 24 20:19 home > > looks owned by root.
/home is not your home directory. Out of the box emerge runs as the portage user, which will not have write permission to your home directory unless you modify the ownership/permissions. But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
