On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:10:50PM +0000, Kerin Millar wrote > As mentioned in a few other posts, recent snapshots are portage:portage > throughout so it's a done deal for new installations.
How "recent"? Looking back into ~/Maildir/spam/cur/ I see that the email file suffix changed from ".d531:2,S" to ".i660:2,S" on May 14th, 2013 (i.e. the current machine "i660" was installed and pulling mail as of that date). > Those who still have it owned by root can benefit from usersync > simply by running: > > # chown -R portage:portage "$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)" > > There is no subsequent requirement not to invoke emerge --sync as root. What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for the emerge update process? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
