Installer should allow installation of macport in custom locations - for users without admin access

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Mark Farnell wrote:
> It is nice to see that everything is now contained in /opt/local/ and
> /usr/ is no longer touched.

I don't think the installer has ever installed into /usr

> However to allow macport to be installed by users without admin
> privilege within their home directory, we should allow users to
> specify custom install directory, and if the user has write access to
> the destination directory, user should *not* be asked for password.

this is supported, but not by the installer. You can install from the source into a prefix that's not /opt/local

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