Bug 492

Summary:	emerge --help and emerge --search should not require to be run by root
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Arcady Genkin <agenkin-gentoo-bugzilla>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Geert Bevin <gbevin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	agenkin-gentoo-bugzilla
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arcady Genkin 2002-02-02 00:56:28 UTC

I think that emerge's read operations (and no operation when --help is 
requested) should work for non-root users.  I, for one, have a habbit of 
running as few commands as possible as a regular user, and see no reason why 
emerge would not print out the syntax help or package info for a regular user.

As an analogy, FreeBSD's pkg_info, pkg_version and friends work for non-root 
users.

Comment 1 Arcady Genkin 2002-02-02 00:58:46 UTC

I meant to say "as few commands as possible as _privileged_ user", of course. 
;^)

Comment 2 Geert Bevin 2002-02-03 16:36:31 UTC

fixed in cvs