~/.macports

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:57 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ~/.macports is used instead of /opt/local/var/macports when you run
> MacPorts in
> > a root installation but without root privileges. As such, MacPorts will
> put
>
> When `macportsuser root` in macports.conf?
>
> I don't know if it's supported practice, but I find it works fine to set
> macportsuser to myself. After all, that's what it boils down to :)
>

Not supported, not a great idea, not an outright installation-breaking
idea. (Among other potential problems, a Portfile bug could nuke your home
directory; with a dedicates macports user, it would get a permission error.)

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