gsoc08-privileges branch merged

[William Siegrist]

On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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. :-/
>
>

Why not just ~/.macports? That would seem to match other software,  
like ssh and subversion.

-Bill