On 04/26/10 01:13, Alberto Villa wrote:
> On 4/26/10, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> This is the first time this issue has come up, what do others think?
>
> i don't mind very much, but imho...
>
>> OTOH, I could imagine users might want to do things like
>> this that require root access to actually change things as a regular
>> user first as a painless way to see what would happen if they ran the
>> command as root.
>
> ...the "-n" flag would be more appropriate.
It only applies to builds/upgrades.
> what if i, as a regular
> user, have write access to /var/db/(ports|pkg)?
That would be silly. :) It would also solve the problem mentioned in
the OP.
Doug
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