| 34 | | I would feel that the best behavior for if MacPorts is requested to perform a privileged operation for a port, if it currently has no privileged access would be for the user to be given the choice of elevating privileges (by evoking sudo), installing in a fakeroot or aborting. The complications are that there is currently no way of knowing whether a port needs privileges, creating a fakeroot mechanism, cleanly elevating and de-elevating privileges. |
| | 34 | I would feel that the best behavior for if MacPorts is requested to perform a privileged operation for a port, if it currently has no privileged access would be for the user to be given the choice of elevating privileges (by evoking sudo), or aborting. |
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| | 36 | ''This has now been largely implemented. A special flag is now thrown ($errorisprivileges) when a port install (or other action) fails due to insufficient privileges. MacPorts will then assemble a sudo command to complete the action with and execute it, prompting the user to enter his/her password to do so.'' |
