On Nov 24, 2013, at 16:12, Gino Van Hauwermeiren wrote: > I installed macports locally as non-root. (when I configured it I gave > ./configure these options : --with-applications-dir=<my_app_dir> > --with-no-root-privileges --with-shared-directory --with-install-user=<my > username> > I can install most other ports without problem, not using sudo. SO this seems > to be ok. > > But when I install xorg-server I get this error: > MacPorts requires root privileges for this action > Error: Failed to install xinit > > ( I work on Mavericks OS X 10.9) > > My questions: > 1) can xinit (and thus xorg-server) be installed as non-root? If yes, what do > I do wrong? Is there somewhere more documentation about this?
Doesn’t look like you’re doing anything wrong. The xinit portfile explicitly requests to be installed as root (it contains the line “install.asroot yes”). > 2) if this can't be done, can I simply install XQuartz instead of xorg-server? Yes. > And will all apps from macports needing X11 server also work? (this apps > having a dependency on xorg-server) No apps depend on xorg-server. xorg-server only provides X11.app, which would only be used by you, not by another port. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
