On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:35:53 +0100
Alexander Mieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, this *could* be one solution, but this *is* not a desirable 
> solution for me.
> As I've said, there is absolutley no sense to restrict the access 
> on /var/log/emerge.log in that hard way.
> It must be possible to build an application which can read the
> emerge.log without to be root or in the portage group.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35237
Seems that other people have different opinions on that.

> Or on the other hand, qpkg should not be allowed then, to show the 
> installed packages without to be in the portage group. And /var/db/pkg
> should also be restricted then, only to root:portage.

correct. But qpkg will leave us in the near future anyway.

Marius

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