Installing without root privileges: what about /Applications/MacPorts?

[Michael Williams]

Hi,

I think I've successfully installed MacPorts without root privileges.  
I installed from source using:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/.macports --with-install-user=$USER --with- 
install-group=staff --with-tclpackage=~/Library/Tcl

(this was based on my interpretation of https://trac.macports.org/wiki/gsoc08-privileges) 
.

However, I've run into trouble with a couple of packages. These errors  
boil down to:

Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: can't create directory "/ 
Applications/MacPorts": permission denied

Is there any way to change this directory to, say, ~/Applications/ 
MacPorts or is it hard-coded?

p.s. if anyone knows mutt and MacPorts well, I have another package  
problem which I think it mutt-related rather than MacPorts, but  
comments welcome: http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.unix.mutt-users/browse_thread/thread/49b65590cb94eea5#

Thanks,
-- Mike Williams