On 30 November 2015 at 10:51, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > But MacPorts "owns" /Applications/MacPorts and /opt/local. It is a user error > to install things into those directories via a method that is not MacPorts.
Well it's an error in macports terms, but from the point of view of an user who installed macports to install packages there's no real difference, nor different Finder alerts when moving stuff in there, the user is likely to be just asked for administrator credentials. > Whereas /Library/Fonts is owned by the user and the user is right to expect > to be in control of its contents. On my 10.10.5 system /Applications/MacPorts/ and /Library/Fonts/ are both root:admin, actually it's easier to write in Fonts since it's 775 and my user is in admin group, while MacPorts is 755. My point is that the same way as MacPorts claims applications_dir it could claim fonts_dir or whatever_dir, there's no real difference since it's an unilateral claim. -- Andrea _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
