On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> After Easter I'll look to putting together some kind of an official
> patch for discussion, as it's about time we had some way of setting
> PKGSRC_UNPRIV=YES or something and having everything just work.

See also PR 27191, which is about adding an unprivileged mode to
pkgsrc/bootstrap/bootstrap.  I have made a few more improvements since
then, but there's not much incentive to send updates to PRs that are
languishing with their patches not being applied.

--apb (Alan Barrett)