If course I know one can install from source. What I am asking is to implement custom directory installation in the installer, as not everyone know how to compile sourcecode...........
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Mark Farnell wrote: >> It is nice to see that everything is now contained in /opt/local/ and >> /usr/ is no longer touched. > > I don't think the installer has ever installed into /usr > >> However to allow macport to be installed by users without admin >> privilege within their home directory, we should allow users to >> specify custom install directory, and if the user has write access to >> the destination directory, user should *not* be asked for password. > > this is supported, but not by the installer. You can install from the source > into a prefix that's not /opt/local > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > +========================================================+ > | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | > | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | > +========================================================+ > | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | > | reflect the opinions of my employer. | > +========================================================+ > > > > _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
