Hi Ian, ----- On 10 Feb, 2015, at 11:37, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote:
> As I said, my ~/.macports on my Mac appears to be unused since november 2013 > or > so. However, the tiny test install I have on my Linux system does contain a > lot > of things that appear to be copies, but also things like "home" the function > of > which is unclear to me. ~/.macports is used instead of /opt/local/var/macports when you run MacPorts in a root installation but without root privileges. As such, MacPorts will put downloaded tarballs, work directories and build support files there when you, for example, run port build qt4-mac # note the lack of sudo The "home" directory in there is used as a target for $HOME during build, because some builds require a writable home but the default of the macportsuser is not, and we don't want to clutter your real home with whatever $buildsystem thinks it wants to put there. You can simply delete ~/.macports -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
