On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as > long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p"
You don't need to be a member of the portage group to do that. [fred@shooty ~ 0]% groups users [fred@shooty ~ 0]% emerge -p bash These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [binary R ] app-shells/bash-4.3_p33-r2 Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and emerge --fetchonly. -- Neil Bothwick Eat shit - 50 million flies can't be wrong Use Microsoft . . . . .
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