On 2016-09-10 00:23, Jeremy Sequoia wrote:
>>> 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
>>> (https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot) for destdir.

+1

> 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.

I added this to the list of ideas, in case we want to do GSoC again next
year.

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#fakeroot

Rainer
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