Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub

Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by LeoPanthera on Saturday August 20, 2016 @11:35PM (#12329265)

MacPorts is useful on multi-user systems. It installs as root, so any user of the system can access installed packages, but only admins can modify them.

I'm sure Homebrew could probably be set up this way, but the defaults are a powerful thing.

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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by rubyn00bie on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:02AM (#12329306)

That's a mighty good reason to use Macports! I'll have to keep that in mind.

You said you could probably configure Homebrew in a similar way, but... can you now-a-days configure macports to install without root for user local packages?*

* Pardon me for the potential ignorance of this question being unreasonable or lazy.

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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by LeoPanthera on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:12AM (#12329323)

As far as I know this has always been possible.

A random Google finds this. https://coderwall.com/p/njpsxg/building-macports-without-roo...

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