On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Am Montag, 12. Mai 2014, 13:15:35 schrieb Alexander Berntsen: >> -1 from me until Portage is capable of detecting if the user's >> operating system supports the FEATUREs, and informing them of this. >> >> I also agree with Ryan that the relevant Linux options should be added >> to the Gentoo Linux menu. > > Same opinion here, please > * have portage detect the OS support > ("You have enabled FEATURES=x, but this is unsupported by your operating > system. Disabling.")
Portage currently prints a warning based on errno when the unshare(2) call fails for ipc-sandbox or network-sandbox. There is probably no need for fancier detection, but the message could probably be improved.