492 – emerge --help and emerge --search should not require to be run by root

Bug 492 - emerge --help and emerge --search should not require to be run by root

Summary: emerge --help and emerge --search should not require to be run by root

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 All

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Geert Bevin

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Reported:	2002-02-02 00:56 UTC by Arcady Genkin
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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