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Lawrence Velázquez
larryv at macports.org
Fri Sep 9 14:46:51 PDT 2016
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 9, 2016, at 04:38, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As an aside, I'd be in favour of setting up MacPorts such that ${prefix} is owned by a ${macports_operator} who's got admin rights (= myself) and reserve use of actual root privilege to those few ports that require setting up SETUID/GETUID executables or that need to create users or groups.
>
> YES! We should not be needing to do such things as root. That is 100% true, and I am in full support of moving away from that and only using root for activate. We should be able to use fakeroot (https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot) for destdir.
Isn't fakeroot GPL-licensed? We wouldn't be able to distribute it with base.
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