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Bug 877329

Summary: app-portage/smart-live-rebuild-1.4.0: unrecognized arguments: --unprivileged-user
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: lekto
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Michał Górny <mgorny>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: emerge --info

Description lekto 2022-10-16 14:00:51 UTC
Created attachment 824449 [details]
emerge --info

Hi, I was trying to run emerge -p @smart-live-rebuild as regular user and I got message about passing --unprivileged-user argument, but when I pass the argument I got error about unrecognized argument.
>lekto@lapek ~ $ emerge -p @smart-live-rebuild 
> 
>These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
>Calculating dependencies \!!! Superuser privileges are required!
> 
>This tool requires superuser privileges. If you would like to force running
>the update using your current user account, please pass the --unprivileged-user
>option.
>... done!
>lekto@lapek ~ $ emerge -p @smart-live-rebuild --unprivileged-user
>usage: emerge (…)
>emerge: error: unrecognized arguments: --unprivileged-user

When I run it as root it just works.