On 07/02/2012 12:48 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 28-05-2012 a las 14:34 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: >> Hi, >> >> In case you aren't familiar with FEATURES=userpriv, here's the >> description from the make.conf(5) man page: >> >> Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as >> portage:portage without a sandbox (unless usersandbox is also used). >> >> The rationale for having the separate "usersandbox" setting, to enable >> use of sys-apps/sandbox, is that people who enable userpriv sometimes >> prefer to have sandbox disabled in order to slightly improve >> performance. However, I would recommend to enable usersandbox by >> default, for the purpose of logging sandbox violations. >> >> Note that ebuilds can set RESTRICT="userpriv" if they require superuser >> privileges during any of the src_* phases that userpriv affects. >> >> I've been using FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" for years, and I don't >> remember experiencing any problems because of it, so I think that it >> would be reasonable to have it enabled by default. Objections? > > Looks like non important problems arised and, then, these could probably > be enabled by default, no? :)
I'm not sure about the best way to handle migration for directories inside $DISTDIR that are used by live ebuilds, since src_unpack will run with different privileges when userpriv is enabled. -- Thanks, Zac
