Installer should allow installation of macport in custom locations - for users without admin access

[Mark Farnell]

If course I know one can install from source.  What I am asking is to
implement custom directory installation in the installer, as not
everyone know how to compile sourcecode...........

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Mark Farnell wrote:
>> It is nice to see that everything is now contained in /opt/local/ and
>> /usr/ is no longer touched.
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> I don't think the installer has ever installed into /usr
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>> However to allow macport to be installed by users without admin
>> privilege within their home directory, we should allow users to
>> specify custom install directory, and if the user has write access to
>> the destination directory, user should *not* be asked for password.
>
> this is supported, but not by the installer. You can install from the source into a prefix that's not /opt/local
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