<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><br>Sent from my iPhone...</div><div><br>On Sep 9, 2016, at 14:46, Lawrence Velázquez <<a href="mailto:larryv@macports.org">larryv@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <<a href="mailto:jeremyhu@apple.com">jeremyhu@apple.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sep 9, 2016, at 04:38, René J.V. Bertin <<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>As an aside, I'd be in favour of setting up MacPorts such that ${prefix} is owned by a ${macports_operator} who's got admin rights (= myself) and reserve use of actual root privilege to those few ports that require setting up SETUID/GETUID executables or that need to create users or groups.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>YES! We should not be needing to do such things as root. That is 100% true, and I am in full support of moving away from that and only using root for activate. We should be able to use fakeroot (<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot">https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot</a>) for destdir.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Isn't fakeroot GPL-licensed? We wouldn't be able to distribute it with base.</span><br></div></blockquote><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">It isn't that complicated. It should be fairly easy for someone to write the moral equivalent of it under a virus-free license. I'd also be happy to sponsor/advise anyone interested in doing it for GSoC or self-ed.</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">--Jeremy</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>vq</span></div></blockquote></body></html>