* On Feb 6 12:34, Steven S. (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > Not that I know of. I believe you have to be root to use emerge. You > should be able to cat the ebuild and download the tarball yourself, you > could then run the configure and install scripts, giving it the > location of where to install.
You can join the "portage" group to use most emerge functions as a non-root user. You should be able to set the $ROOT variable to "~" to install things to your home directory, though I haven't tried it... ROOT is normally "/"; it controls where files go after the sandbox. Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
