<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:57 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> ~/.macports is used instead of /opt/local/var/macports when you run MacPorts in<br>
> a root installation but without root privileges. As such, MacPorts will put<br>
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</span>When `macportsuser root` in macports.conf?<br>
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I don't know if it's supported practice, but I find it works fine to set macportsuser to myself. After all, that's what it boils down to :)<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Not supported, not a great idea, not an outright installation-breaking idea. (Among other potential problems, a Portfile bug could nuke your home directory; with a dedicates macports user, it would get a permission error.)<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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