> On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jerem...@apple.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 9, 2016, at 04:38, René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As an aside, I'd be in favour of setting up MacPorts such that ${prefix} is
>> owned by a ${macports_operator} who's got admin rights (= myself) and
>> reserve use of actual root privilege to those few ports that require setting
>> up SETUID/GETUID executables or that need to create users or groups.
>
> YES! We should not be needing to do such things as root. That is 100% true,
> and I am in full support of moving away from that and only using root for
> activate. We should be able to use fakeroot
> (https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot) for destdir.
Isn't fakeroot GPL-licensed? We wouldn't be able to distribute it with base.
vq
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