My non-root MacPorts 1.7.1 install was configured with

--with-install-user=rschmidt
--with-install-group=admin

I don't use "sudo" for most operations. This gives me some assurance that arbitrary things on my hard drive are not being modified. I only use sudo to install ports that need root access, like those that have startup scripts, like apache2 or mysql5-server.

MacPorts trunk has a new --with-macports-user option. How am I meant to configure MacPorts trunk now? What should I specify for the macports-user? rschmidt? root? some new user I create? Will I need to change my habits about when I use sudo?

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