On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:20, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Is [OT] marked because it has nothing to do with Gentoo. I mean when no > ebuild is provided, someone is a new user (doesn't know what --prefix is), > and by default with one shot "./configure ; make ; make install" it could > be installed in home. If this is what you want then the user must be in the portage group. Now that user may be able to install software in / due to a lack of knowledge of the system. However they can do ROOT=/home/user emerge program and that will install it into their home directory. However if they have the power to do this, they have the power to accidentally install into /. Pick your poison here. -- Zac Slade
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