gsoc08-privileges branch merged

[Rainer Müller]

William Siegrist wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 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.

To support multiple installs of MacPorts on the same machine the path
has to be unique. The best to come up with is ~/.macports/${prefix} as
${prefix} is unique to each installation.

Rainer