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

[Mark Farnell]

So I think the best way is to do away with the installer and put the
entire macport (base, ports and configuration files) within
MacPort.app.

All the user needs to do is to include the bin path(s)  within
MacPort.app in .bashrc

Then whenever we run "port install", port will detect the directory of
its MacPort.app (a machine can have multiple copies of MacPort.app
across the system) directory and install the ports correctly into its
own MacPort.app

Does this idea sound better?

Mark

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Scott Webster wrote:
>
>> I guess Mark is presumably thinking of a situation where someone just
>> doesn't have the permissions to install in /opt/local so it isn't just
>> a willy-nilly desire to put it somewhere else, but still it seems that
>> compiling from source is not all that hard.
>
> Would it be possible to `ln -s /opt/local ~/opt/local` and work around this entirely with the normal installer?
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