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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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