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[Jeremy Sequoia]

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On Sep 9, 2016, at 14:46, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:

>> 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.

It isn't that complicated.  It should be fairly easy for someone to write the moral equivalent of it under a virus-free license.  I'd also be happy to sponsor/advise anyone interested in doing it for GSoC or self-ed.

--Jeremy

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> vq
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