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On Sep 9, 2016, at 14:46, Lawrence Velázquez <lar...@macports.org> wrote:
>> 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.
It isn't that complicated. It should be fairly easy for someone to write the
moral equivalent of it under a virus-free license. I'd also be happy to
sponsor/advise anyone interested in doing it for GSoC or self-ed.
--Jeremy
>
> vq
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