Something wrong with MacPorts package installer?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> It is correct for things at the top level of your drive ("/") to be 
> owned by root:wheel. Not sure why that wasn't the case for you before. I 
> wasn't aware that our installer would fix the ownership of items at the 
> top level of your drive. Maybe it's a feature of Apple's Installer.

Some of mine are root:admin (Sierra):

drwxrwxr-x+ 68 root  admin  2312 Sep 20 20:56 Applications
drwxrwxr-x@ 11 root  admin   374 Nov  2  2015 Developer
drwxr-xr-x+ 64 root  wheel  2176 Apr 11 09:57 Library
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel    68 Jan  1  2001 Network
drwxr-xr-x@  4 root  wheel   136 Jul 21 15:13 System
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    60 Mar 13  2010 User Guides And Information -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  admin   204 Jan  8  2017 Users
drwxr-xr-x@  5 root  wheel   170 Oct  2 17:13 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x@ 38 root  wheel  1292 Jul 21 15:13 bin
drwxrwxr-t@  2 root  admin    68 Sep 24 06:40 cores
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  4229 Sep 30 17:02 dev
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel    11 Jan  1  2001 etc -> private/etc
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1 Sep 30 17:16 home
-rw-r--r--@  1 root  wheel   313 Jul 31  2016 installer.failurerequests
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   102 Aug 31 16:33 macOS_SDK
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    68 Dec 15  2015 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1 Sep 30 17:16 net
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin   136 Oct 17  2014 opt
drwxr-xr-x@  6 root  wheel   204 Jan  1  2001 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 63 root  wheel  2142 Jul 21 15:13 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel    11 Jan  1  2001 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root  wheel   374 Apr 11 10:10 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 root  wheel    11 Jan  1  2001 var -> private/var

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