gsoc08-privileges branch merged

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 18, 2009, at 03:42, Joshua Root wrote:

> I just finished merging the changes from the gsoc08-privileges branch
> back into trunk.

Oh right! That bit.


> Modified: trunk/base/ChangeLog
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/base/ChangeLog	2009-02-18 09:03:06 UTC (rev 46953)
> +++ trunk/base/ChangeLog	2009-02-18 09:32:43 UTC (rev 46954)
> @@ -5,6 +5,43 @@
>
>
>  Release 1.8.0 (unreleased):
> +    - MacPorts now performs fetch, extract, patch, configure and  
> build in a
> +      user rather than system owned location. By default, this is
> +      ~/.macports/opt. This allows MacPorts to do all but the  
> install of the
> +      port without root privileges. (gsoc08-privileges)


You know, I was never comfortable with this default location. It  
perpetuates the misperception that MacPorts installs into /opt when  
in fact it installs into /opt/local. But making the default location  
for non-root activities ~/.macports/opt/local doesn't make sense  
either, does it? Sigh. :-/