[MacPorts] #36323: Macports should be multiuser friendly

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#36323: Macports should be multiuser friendly
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  Reporter:  ralph@…      |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  base         |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:               |
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Comment (by ralph@…):

 That's none too friendly for a teaching lab. Students may have little idea
 of how to "add /opt/local/bin/ to their PATH". It would be much more
 helpful in such a case if macports software "just worked", for all users.

 Also, it goes deeper than than you indicate.
 Various ports themselves tell users to make further updates to their
 paths, set various shell variables, etc.
 This is not going to be seen by the students if the class tutor installs
 the piece of software, nor is it necessarily useful to show it to them
 anyway.

 It does seem that
 (1) some good way is needed of doing things transparently for all users -
 perhaps /etc/paths.d is part of the answer...
 (2) there needs to be some thinking of how to handle this in a systematic
 way right across macports, for all ports,
 (3) port maintainers are given guidelines on how to get this right, or
 better still, this is built into the macports infrastructure

 This is why I am suggesting it as an enhancement request. It will need
 time and careful thinking to get right, but will make macports much more
 usable in classroom scenarios.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36323#comment:2>
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