On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Feb 18, 2009, at 03:42, Joshua Root wrote:
I just finished merging the changes from the gsoc08-privileges branch
back into trunk.
Oh right! That bit.
Modified: trunk/base/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/base/ChangeLog 2009-02-18 09:03:06 UTC (rev 46953)
+++ trunk/base/ChangeLog 2009-02-18 09:32:43 UTC (rev 46954)
@@ -5,6 +5,43 @@
Release 1.8.0 (unreleased):
+ - MacPorts now performs fetch, extract, patch, configure and
build in a
+ user rather than system owned location. By default, this is
+ ~/.macports/opt. This allows MacPorts to do all but the
install of the
+ port without root privileges. (gsoc08-privileges)
You know, I was never comfortable with this default location. It
perpetuates the misperception that MacPorts installs into /opt when
in fact it installs into /opt/local. But making the default location
for non-root activities ~/.macports/opt/local doesn't make sense
either, does it? Sigh. :-/
Why not just ~/.macports? That would seem to match other software,
like ssh and subversion.
-Bill
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