KDE emerge issue (permissions)

[email protected] Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:32:51 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <009a01c2744f$5c2915b0$7d5a960a@15090125>
When I emerged KDE, lots of times I got a message saying it couldn't create a file ".qt" under a directory tree that started with "/root" because the permissions weren't correct.  My understanding is that when I log in as root I should be at the "/" directory.  Is this not correct?  Also, as root shouldn't I have basic permissions over everything?