Non-root port/package installs

[Mark Linimon]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Ade Lovett wrote:

> Conceptually, yes.  The point of the followup is that it would probably 
> make more sense to have package building clusters run as a 
> non-privileged user.
> 
> This would then show up ALL ports that need such modification for 
> pre-install/pre-su-install and post-install/post-su-install, and fixes 
> could be done tree-wide, rather than going on a piecemeal basis which is 
> likely to take considerably longer, and require considerably more effort.

I'm working on a draft of the ports "worthy projects list" and this
should definitely be on it.  (I have my 4.x ports set up as non-root
so I continually trip over this.)

In the short-term there are a number of other things that IMHO we need
go get through pointyhat *-exp runs on first, so I would classify this
one as a medium-term goal.

This would be a situation where someone with a spare tinderbox could
have a good impact on the project.

mcl