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Revision 14
Comment: Status update.

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 ''I've added the following new options to the Portfile format: patch.asroot, build.asroot, configure.asroot, destroot.asroot, and install.asroot. These take a boolean (yes/no) value. The default for all but install.asroot is no. install.asroot's default value is yes.''
 
 ==== Privilege Escaltion ====
-I would feel that the best behavior for if MacPorts is requested to perform a privileged operation for a port, if it currently has no privileged access would be for the user to be given the choice of elevating privileges (by evoking sudo), installing in a fakeroot or aborting. The complications are that there is currently no way of knowing whether a port needs privileges, creating a fakeroot mechanism, cleanly elevating and de-elevating privileges.
+I would feel that the best behavior for if MacPorts is requested to perform a privileged operation for a port, if it currently has no privileged access would be for the user to be given the choice of elevating privileges (by evoking sudo), or aborting. 
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+''This has now been largely implemented. A special flag is now thrown ($errorisprivileges) when a port install (or other action) fails due to insufficient privileges. MacPorts will then assemble a sudo command to complete the action with and execute it, prompting the user to enter his/her password to do so.''
 
 ==== MacPorts Group ====
 It would be a good idea to create an additional group macports which users are allowed to run any port command. So /opt/local would be owned by the group macports with g+rw. (Gentoo's portage does something like this.)

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